Ammu watched over them fiercely. Her watchfulness stretched her, made her taut and tense. She was quick to reprimand her children, but even quicker to take offense on their behalf.
Arundhati RoyTag: family universal-truths
At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.
Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers?
Tag: inspirational truth reality equality women nationalism capitalism economics government government-corruption exploitation human-rights corporations india arundhati-roy environmental-degradation dam false-gods narmada-valley
Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or THINK they have) gained.
Arundhati RoyTag: truth power humility human-nature gratitude helplessness powerlessness
From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.
Arundhati RoyTag: fear living existentialism humans dying nuclear-weapons existential-horror
As for the third Official Reason: exposing Western Hypocrisy - how much more exposed can they be? Which decent human being on earth harbors any illusions about it? These are people whose histories are spongy with the blood of others. Colonialism, apartheid, slavery, ethnic cleansing, germ warfare, chemical weapons - they virtually invented it all.
Arundhati RoyTag: history hypocrisy western-civilization international-development colonialism european-civilization postcolonialism western-history post-colonial-theory third-world-feminism western-hypocrisy
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.
Arundhati RoyTag: fear truth humanity madness danger humans folly white colonialism nuclear-weapons nuclear-bomb mind-control whiteness nuclear-threat colonizer
The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.
Arundhati RoyTag: life reality carpe-diem death living dream dead dying life-and-death truths alive existing
How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "market" put a price on things - food, clothes, electricity, running water - when it doesn't take into account the REAL cost of production?
Arundhati RoyTag: women humanity nature capitalism international-relations manipulation exploitation human-rights cities colonialism third-world first-world international-authors
[Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.
Arundhati RoyTag: lies international-relations enterprise colonialism aid foreign-aid international-politics
The war for the Narmada valley is not just some exotic tribal war, or a remote rural war or even an exclusively Indian war. Its a war for the rivers and the mountains and the forests of the world. All sorts of warriors from all over the world, anyone who wishes to enlist, will be honored and welcomed. Every kind of warrior will be needed. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, judges, journalists, students, sportsmen, painters, actors, singers, lovers . . . The borders are open, folks! Come on in.
Arundhati RoyTag: inspirational love women nature environmentalism unity warrior new-world-order narmada-valley third-world-feminism
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