Arundhati Roy

"When you make people desperate, you make people dangerous."

"The moment you fall in love, you see the world completely differently."

"A writer's job is to imagine everything so well that the reader believes it absolutely."

"Bureaucrats are not policy makers. They are the instruments of policy makers."

"The smartest men in the world make their living pushing papers around to other men."

"I've learned that you cannot live in the world with an honest heart and integrity if you're not willing to be a pariah sometimes."

"There is no such thing as the voiceless. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard."

"In the modern era, the consumer is sovereign. But we should ask: sovereign over whom?"

"Take what you can use and let the rest go."

"The only dream that matters is the dream of reality itself."

"Hope is a critical thing in human beings. But hope isn't hope if it's not earned."

"We are not here to represent the world. We are here to represent ourselves."

"Once you see something, you can't unsee it."

"To be creative, one must have the courage to face failure."

"The price of progress is paid in the blood of those who are run over."

"Language is power. The ability to articulate yourself is the ability to control your universe."

"Kindness is a strategy. It's a way of living."

"The world we see is not inevitable. It is constructed."

"When someone tells you that you're wrong, before you react, listen carefully to what they're saying."

"The measure of a civilization is how it treats its weakest members."

"Fear is the primary weapon of power. But love is stronger than fear."

"You can't separate the personal from the political."

"To have a future, we must first imagine one."

"Death is the only certainty we have in life."

"Endurance is not just the acceptance of a hard situation. It's rising up and saying I will go on."

"Gratitude is not just about thanking others. It's about understanding what you've been given."

"The pursuit of happiness is, in itself, a form of happiness."

"To be beautiful is to stand still and know you're beautiful."

"The songs we sing and the stories we tell are the DNA of who we are."

"In the struggle between you and the world, side with the world."