Arundhati Roy Quotes About Choices

• Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations. Even if we do vote, we should just spend less time and intellectual energy on our choices and keep our eye on the ball.

  Arundhati Roy

  Taken, Mean, Eye

  "Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'". Interview with Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

• Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all... it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World

  Arundhati Roy

  Business, Choices, Alternatives

  Arundhati Roy (2001). “Power Politics: The Reincarnation of Rumpelstiltskin”, D C Books

• I can't be a part of the large convoy because it's not a choice that you can make. The fact that I'm an educated person means that I can't be on that convoy. I don't want to be on it. I don't want to be a victim. I don't want to disappear into the darkness.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mean, Choices, Darkness

  Fuente: www.progressive.org

• In Iraq, until before the war, the women were scientists, museum directors, doctors. I'm not valourising Saddam Hussein or the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, which was brutal and killed hundreds of thousands of people - it was the Soviet Union's Vietnam. I'm just saying that now, in these new wars, whole countries have slipped into mayhem - the women have just been pushed back into their burqas - and not by choice.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, War, Museums

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

• En India tenemos una derecha tan despiadada y tan abiertamente perversa, que es el partido Baratiya Janata (BJP), y luego tenemos el partido del Congreso, que hace cosas casi peores, pero lo hace de noche. Y la gente siente que las únicas opciones que tiene son votar por esto o por aquello. Y lo que quiero decir es que, votes a quien votes, no tiene por qué consumir todo el oxígeno del debate político.

  Arundhati Roy

  Party, Night, Oxygen

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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