Arundhati Roy Quotes About Violence

• Amar. Ser amado. Para no olvidar nunca tu propia insignificancia. Para no acostumbrarte nunca a la indecible violencia y a la vulgar disparidad de la vida que te rodea. Para buscar la alegría en los lugares más tristes. A perseguir la belleza hasta su guarida. A no simplificar nunca lo complicado ni complicar lo sencillo. A respetar la fuerza, nunca el poder. Sobre todo, a observar. Intentar comprender. A no apartar nunca la mirada. Y nunca, nunca olvidar.

  Arundhati Roy

  Vida, Triste, Romántico

  Arundhati Roy (2002). "El álgebra de la justicia infinita", p. 24, Penguin Books India.

• States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's excessive - usually, the resistance.

  Arundhati Roy

  Resistance, Violence, States

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

• But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually victimize women. And a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mujeres, Lucha, Corazón

  Arundhati Roy (2006). "Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire", p. 351, Penguin Books India.

• When you think of how much violence, how much blood... how much has been destroyed to create the great nations, America, Australia, Britain, Germany, France, Belgium - even India, Pakistan. Having destroyed so much to make them, we must have nuclear weapons to protect them - and climate change to hold up their way of life... a two-pronged annihilation project.

  Arundhati Roy

  Thinking, Blood, Two

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

• Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?

  Arundhati Roy

  Theatre, Needs, Pieces

  "Arundhati Roy: 'They are trying to keep me destabilised. Anybody who says anything is in danger'". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2011.

• Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.

  Arundhati Roy

  Tactics, Violence, Victim

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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