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Arundhati Roy

"Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness â€” and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones weâ€™re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling â€” their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability."

Source : Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.112, South End Press

Arundhati Roy

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“Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.”
“I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.”
“India may be overtaking China as the world's most polluted country. Even now, which country is worse depends on the day.”
“I do think there's something about the digital age that is increasingly dehumanising us. We're in this very weird place where we're being pulled into experiences that aren't really experiences at all.”
“I think most of us secretly know â€“ and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say â€“ that without such concepts as duty and honor and service, no civilization can endure. ... I suspect most Americans would respond positively to a [draft] if it gives us some choice in how to exercise that duty and service. ... Exactly the kind of choice my generation did not have during the Vietnam War.”
“We can fight seizures if we fight for our dreams everyday and appreciate the little things we accomplish”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.”
“In a world that is deepening its mutual interdependence, inward-focused thinking is no longer able to safeguard the peace of Japan. We will fully defend the lives and assets of our nationals as well as our territory, territorial waters, and territorial airspace in a resolute manner.”

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