Arundhati Roy Quotes About Dreams

• Si eres feliz en un sueño, ¿eso cuenta?

  Arundhati Roy

  Feliz, Sueño, Novelistas

• 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 Roy

  Life, Dream, Alive

  Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.51, Haymarket Books

• Después de todo, es muy fácil destrozar una historia. Romper una cadena de pensamientos. Arruinar un fragmento de un sueño que se transporta cuidadosamente como una pieza de porcelana. Dejarlo ser, viajar con él, como hizo Velutha, es mucho más difícil.

  Arundhati Roy

  Life, Dream, Stories

  FaceBook post by Arundhati Roy from Apr 26, 2017

• En una época en la que el oportunismo lo es todo, en la que la esperanza parece perdida, en la que todo se reduce a un cínico negocio, debemos encontrar el valor para soñar. Para recuperar el romanticismo. El romanticismo de creer en la justicia, en la libertad y en la dignidad. Para todos.

  Arundhati Roy

  Soñar, creer, negocios

  Arundhati Roy (2006). "Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire", p. 237, Penguin Books India.

• ...A medida que crece la disparidad entre ricos y pobres, se intensifica la lucha por acaparar los recursos. Para imponer sus "acuerdos de cariño", para corporativizar los cultivos que cultivamos, el agua que bebemos, el aire que respiramos y los sueños que soñamos, la globalización corporativa necesita una confederación internacional de gobiernos leales, corruptos y autoritarios en los países más pobres para imponer reformas impopulares y sofocar los motines. La globalización corporativa -o deberíamos llamarla por su nombre, imperialismo- necesita una prensa que pretenda ser libre. Necesita tribunales que pretendan impartir justicia.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Dream, Fighting

  California River Watch 2011 Annual Statement, criverwatch.org. 2011.

• The idea of justice - even just dreaming of justice - is revolutionary. The language of human rights tends to accept a status quo that is intrinsically unjust - and then tries to make it more accountable.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Ideas, Rights

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

• 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.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, War, Mind

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

• It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining three raccoons, treating them like real ladies. Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness. Or affection. It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Real, Men

• If you are happy in a dream, Ammu, does that count? Estha asked. "Does what count?" "The happiness does it count?". She knew exactly what he meant, her son with his spoiled puff. Because the truth is, that only what counts, counts....."If you eat fish in a dream, does it count?" Does it mean you've eaten fish?

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Mean, Son

• Es una gran locura creer que las armas nucleares sólo son mortales si se utilizan. El hecho de que existan, su presencia en nuestras vidas, causará más estragos de los que podemos imaginar. Las armas nucleares impregnan nuestro pensamiento. Controlan nuestro comportamiento. Administran nuestras sociedades. Informan nuestros sueños. Se entierran como ganchos de carne en la base de nuestros cerebros. Son proveedoras de locura. Son los colonizadores por excelencia. Más blancos que cualquier hombre blanco que haya existido. El corazón mismo de la blancura.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Believe, Heart

• From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge sums of money; a way of centralizing resources; a way of snatching rivers away from the poor and giving them to the rich. And so in a sense they've become monuments to corruption.

  Arundhati Roy

  Letting Go, Dream, Government

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live up to our dreams? What sort of dreams were these that have been broken? Isn't the greatness of great nations directly proportionate to their ability to be ruthless, genocidal? Doesn't the height of a country's 'success' usually also mark the depths of its moral failure?

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Country, Greatness

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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