50 quotes
"Another world is not only possible, she's on the way and, on a quiet day, if you listen very carefully you can hear her breathe."
Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.
While, legally and constitutionally, speech may be free, the space in which that freedom can be exercised has been snatched from us and auctioned to the highest bidders.
An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire (2005)
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire (2005)
People rarely win wars, governments rarely (completely) lose them. People (do completely) get killed.
Ammu explained to Estha and Rahel that people always loved best what they Identified most with.
The God of Small Things (1997)
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead."
Come September (2002)
The Kathakali Man is the most beautiful of men. Because his body is his soul.
Independence itself came to us as what Gandhi famously called a "wooden loaf'-a notional freedom tainted by the blood of the thousands who died during Partition.
War Talk (2003)
Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience? People have the right to resist annihilation.
the writer is the mid wife of understanding.
Every Day a Word Surprises Me & Other Quotes by Writers by Phaidon (2018)
Kashmir has never been an integral part of India. It is a historical fact. Even the Indian government has accepted this.
What does loss mean to individuals? What does it mean to whole cultures, whole people who have learned to live with it as a constant companion?
Come September (2002)
In the last ten years of unbridled Corporate Globalization...the numbers of poor in the world has increased by 100 million.
Come September (2002)
“The American Way of Life” is simply not sustainable. Because it doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
Come September (2002)
The story of the Narmada valley is nothing less than the story of Modern India. Like the tiger in the Belgrade zoo during the NATO bombing, we've begun to eat our own limbs.
Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.
Come September (2002)
They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.
The God of Small Things (1997)
The U.S., which George Bush has called “the most peaceful nation on earth”, has been at war with one country or another every year for the last fifty [years].
Come September (2002)
The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.
War Talk (2003)