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Quotes from An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire — Arundhati Roy

born 1961 India

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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)

Modern democracies have been around long enough for neoliberal capitalists to learn how to subvert them. They have mastered the technique of infiltrating the instruments of democracy—the 'independent' judiciary, the 'free' press, the parliament—and moulding them to their purpose.

An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire (2005)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arundhati Roy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.