Arundhati Roy Quotes About Giving

• La empatía puede ser la cualidad más importante que debe cultivarse para dar a la paz una oportunidad de luchar.

  Arundhati Roy

  Lucha, donación, empatía

• 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 Roy

  Gratitude, Thinking, Giving

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”, p.136, Penguin Books India

• 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

• I sometimes think I was perhaps the only girl in India whose mother said, "Whatever you do, don't get married". For me, when I see a bride, it gives me a rash. I find them ghoulish, almost.

  Arundhati Roy

  Girl, Mother, Thinking

  Fuente: progressive.org

• Today, the Indian government is trying to present privatization as the alternative to the state, to public enterprise. But privatization is only a further evolution of the centralized state, where the state says that they have the right to give the entire power production in Maharashtra to Enron.

  Arundhati Roy

  Government, Giving, Trying

  Fuente: progressive.org

• It's very easy for me to begin to believe the publicity about myself, whether for or against. It can give you an absurd idea of yourself. I know that there's a fine balance between accepting your own power with grace and misusing it. And I don't ever want to portray myself as a representative of the voiceless. I'm scared of that.

  Arundhati Roy

  Creer, Ideas, Dar

  Fuente: progressive.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.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Real, War

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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