Phrase by 'Arundhati Roy'
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Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations.
Author: Arundhati Roy - Indian NovelistBack , Free , Democracy , Us
In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They're ecologically unsustainable. And they're hugely undemocratic.
Author: Arundhati Roy - Indian NovelistThink , Problems , Big , California
There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it's easy to guess where I am in that.
Author: Arundhati Roy - Indian NovelistPeople , Think , I Am , Power
Caste is about dividing people up in ways that preclude every form of solidarity, because even in the lowest castes, there are divisions and sub-castes, and everyone's co-opted into the business of this hierarchical, silo-ised society.
Author: Arundhati Roy - Indian NovelistPeople , Everyone , Society , Business , Caste
I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them and to go to festivals and spend your life emotionally invested in reviews or the awards. You have to shrink your universe in a way. To me, it's the opposite.
Author: Arundhati Roy - Indian NovelistLife , You , Me , People
I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.
Author: Arundhati Roy - Indian NovelistMe , Money , War , Freedom
I'm living to the edges of my fingernails, using everything I have. It's impossible for me to look at things politically or in any way as a project, to further my career. You're injected directly into the blood of the places in which you're living and what's going on there.
Author: Arundhati Roy - Indian NovelistYou , Me , Look , Way
In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.
Author: Arundhati Roy - Indian NovelistHeart , Way , Language , Alone
If you ask me what is at the core of what I write, it isn't about 'rights', it's about justice. Justice is a grand, beautiful, revolutionary idea.
Author: Arundhati Roy - Indian NovelistYou , Me , Beautiful , Justice
To me, there is nothing higher than fiction. Nothing. It is fundamentally who I am. I am a teller of stories. For me, that's the only way I can make sense of the world, with all the dance that it involves.
Author: Arundhati Roy - Indian NovelistMe , World , I Am , Dance
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