| 16 Famous Quotes by Arundhati Roy
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“When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective”
Symbol Quotes |
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“In light of activists' global boycotts
of war profiteers, globalization
begins to look evitable. We
reverse imperialist's sanctions
with the people's sanctions.”
Economy Quotes |
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“The world's 'freeest'
country has the highest
number in prison.”
Freedom Quotes |
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“Bring to a boil
Add oil
Then bomb
Ms Roy is author of the God of Small Things.”
Peace Quotes |
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“10 million people marched against the war on 5 continents
in the most united opposition to war ever seen in history.
Not in a single European country was opposition to the war less than 89%.”
Peace Quotes |
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“Refuse to wave the flag
Refuse to move the missiles from the warehouse
to the dock.”
Power Quotes |
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“When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“You would remember in October 2000 the court had given its judgement, it had told the government give me a rehabilitation master plan in three months...it is 2006 now, in six years it has still not even given a master plan and you are talking about rehabilitation. So, now in three months, how will rehabilitation happen? It cannot happen.”
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“Another religion turned against itself, another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature...”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“The NBA for the last 20 years approached every single institutional democratic body.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?”
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“Why not have your nuclear bombs in your briefcase? All of these policies that America upholds, nuclear weapons, privatization, all of these things are going to mutate and metamorphosis into these dangerous things.”
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“The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.”
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“I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of hatred that the Hindu nationalists had been spreading.”
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“Electricity produced in the name of the poor is consumed by the rich with endless appetites,”
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“You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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Arundhati Roy Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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