Arundhati Roy Quotes

Biography: Arundhati Roy is known for her novel "The God of Small Things," which ... more Biography: Arundhati Roy is known for her novel "The God of Small Things," which won the Booker Prize in 1997. She is an Indian author and activist, acclaimed for her incisive commentary on social and political issues. Roy's works frequently explore themes of human rights, environmentalism, and economic justice. less

"To call someone anti-American, indeed to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.""Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars.""Another world lies beyond the world of money and power. It's on the other side of that thin membrane, and it's more real than all the stuff we see on the news.""What does peace mean in a world where the profit margin is the only value system?""A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.""The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out.""There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.""The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.""To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you.""Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."

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