Arundhati Roy Quotes About War

• Capitalism’s real “grave-diggers” may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they seem to have trouble grasping a simple fact: Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises-War and Shopping-simply will not work.

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  Real, War, Simple

• It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism, and most entertainingly, to "rid the world of evil-doers.

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  Paz, Guerra, Ubuntu

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.133, Penguin Books India

• Las manifestaciones coloridas y las marchas de fin de semana son vitales, pero por sí solas no son lo bastante poderosas para detener las guerras. Las guerras sólo se detendrán cuando los soldados se nieguen a luchar, cuando los trabajadores se nieguen a cargar armas en barcos y aviones, cuando la gente boicotee los puestos de avanzada económicos del Imperio que se extienden por todo el mundo.

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  Powerful, War, Fighting

  Arundhati Roy (2004). “Public Power in the Age of Empire”, p.39, Seven Stories Press

• Nuestra estrategia debe consistir no sólo en enfrentarnos al imperio, sino en asediarlo. Privarlo de oxígeno. Avergonzarlo. Burlarnos de él. Con nuestro arte, nuestra música, nuestra literatura, nuestra obstinación, nuestra alegría, nuestra brillantez, nuestra implacabilidad y nuestra capacidad de contar nuestras propias historias. Historias diferentes de las que nos han lavado el cerebro para que creamos. La revolución corporativa se derrumbará si nos negamos a comprar lo que nos venden: sus ideas, su versión de la historia, sus guerras, sus armas, su noción de inevitabilidad.

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  Arte, Guerra, Creer

  Arundhati Roy (2003). "War Talk", p.112, South End Press

• La revolución corporativa se derrumbará si nos negamos a comprar lo que venden: sus ideas, su versión de la historia, sus guerras, sus armas, su noción de inevitabilidad. Recordad esto: Nosotros somos muchos y ellos son pocos. Ellos nos necesitan más que nosotros a ellos.

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  Positivo, Guerra, Ideas

  Arundhati Roy (2003). "War Talk", p.112, South End Press

• Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.

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  War, Use, Bombs

• Hay una guerra que nos hace adorar a nuestros conquistadores y despreciarnos a nosotros mismos.

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  Guerra, Desprecio, Adoración

• La invasión de Irak pasará sin duda a la historia como una de las guerras más cobardes jamás libradas. Fue una guerra en la que un grupo de naciones ricas, armadas con suficientes armas nucleares como para destruir el mundo varias veces, acorralaron a una nación pobre, la acusaron falsamente de tener armas nucleares, utilizaron a las Naciones Unidas para obligarla a desarmarse, luego la invadieron, la ocuparon y ahora están en proceso de venderla.

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  War, Iraq, Nuclear

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.333, Penguin Books India

• El nacionalismo de un tipo u otro fue la causa de la mayoría de los genocidios del siglo XX.

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  Guerra, Causas, Tipo

  Arundhati Roy (2003). "War Talk", p.47, South End Press

• Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq - mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods - are victims just as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to die for a victory that will never be theirs.

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  Niños, Guerra, Lucha

• Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

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  Business, War, Hegemony

  Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.68, South End Press

• Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened. In the country that she came from poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace Worse Things kept happening

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  Country, War, Forever

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.19, Penguin Books India

• People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds and smother thought, and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury their willing dead.

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  War, Winning, Government

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”, p.242, Penguin Books India

• What is happening to our world is almost too colossal for human comprehension to contain...To contemplate its girth and its circumference, to attempt to define it, to try and fight it all at once, is impossible. The only way to combat it is by fighting specific wars in specific ways.

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  War, Fighting, Our World

• Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?

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  Real, War, Gun

  Arundhati Roy (1999). “The cost of living”, HarperCollins

• And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering. And we cannot understand the whispering, because our minds have been invaded by a war. A war that we have both won and lost. The very worst sort of war. A war that captures dreams and re-dreams them. A war that has made us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

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  Dream, War, Mind

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.53, Penguin Books India

• It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked to believe that the U.S. marines are actually on a feminist mission.

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  War, Believe, Marine

  Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.240, Haymarket Books

• Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.

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  War, Reason, Altruism

  Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.68, South End Press

• The genocide will not necessarily take the form of war, or death camps. Most likely it will take the form of ecocide, in which landscapes are devastated and the populations that live there slowly starve or turn upon each other savagely because there isn't enough food or water to go around.

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  War, Water, Population

  Fuente: www.soldefter.com

• In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can you really bomb feminism into a country? And now, after 25 years of brutal war - 10 years against the Soviet occupation, 15 years of US occupation - the Taliban is riding back to Kabul and will soon be back to doing business with the United States.

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  Country, War, Marine

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

• Public support in the U.S. for the war against Iraq was founded on a multitiered edifice of falsehood and deceit, coordinated by the U.S. government and faithfully amplified by the corporate media.

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  War, Government, Media

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

• Habla en voz suficientemente alta de derechos humanos y da la impresión de que la democracia funciona, de que la justicia funciona. Hubo un tiempo en que Estados Unidos hizo la guerra para derrocar democracias, porque entonces la democracia era una amenaza para el libre mercado. Los países nacionalizaban sus recursos, protegían sus mercados.... Así que entonces, las democracias reales estaban siendo derrocadas. Fueron derrocadas en Irán, fueron derrocadas en toda América Latina, Chile.

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  Country, Real, War

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

• The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't find its enemy, for the sake of the enraged folks back home, it will have to manufacture one. Once war begins, it will develop a momentum, a logic and a justification of its own, and we'll lose sight of why it's being fought in the first place.

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  War, Home, Sight

  Arundhati Roy (2001). “Power Politics”, South End Pr

• Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it wasn't just your ordinary brand of friendly neighborhood frenzy. It was frenzy with a purpose. It ushered in an old doctrine in a new bottle: the doctrine of preemptive strike, also known as the United States can do whatever the hell it wants, and that's official. The war against Iraq has been fought and won, and no weapons of mass destruction have been found, not even a little one.

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  País, Guerra, Iraq

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

• Now we're in a situation where democracy has been taken into the workshop and fixed, remodeled to be market-friendly. So now the United States is fighting wars to instal democracies. First it was topple them, now it's instal them, right? And this whole rise of corporate-funded NGOs in the modern world, this notion of CSR, corporate social responsibility - it's all part of a New Managed Democracy. In that sense, it's all part of the same machine.

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  War, Taken, Responsibility

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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