Arundhati Roy

"We need to learn to listen to the voices we've been ignoring."

"I believe that creativity is an act of resistance."

"The world is not as complicated as we think it is."

"I'm interested in how we live with contradiction and ambiguity."

"The greatest act of courage is to be honest about our vulnerabilities."

"We are all capable of both great kindness and great cruelty."

"The world changes, but the human heart remains the same."

"The moment you declare yourself to be a writer, you are automatically positioned against the world."

"To love is to break. To be loved is to be broken."

"History is now and England is a country where you don't have to commit a crime to be punished for one."

"I think it is dangerous to idealize anything. The moment you put someone or something on a pedestal, you're asking for trouble."

"The only thing worth globalizing is dissent."

"After years of feeding us lies, the system is starting to slowly realise its own capacity to be destructive."

"Very often in the beginning, every idea seems silly."

"We cross deserts looking for the fertile place."

"The fact that we are here and that we can think proves we are not all just empty robots."

"Socialism has failed, but so does capitalism."

"The real invasion began not with weapons, but with words."

"What does one's worth depend on? On the fact that you've been broken and survived."

"So much of what we know about our own lives is edited and narrativized."

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

"We are trained to believe that we are powerless until we come together, but the opposite is true."

"Language is important in our struggle against power structures."

"The easiest thing to become in the world is silent."

"We must radically transform our relationship with the natural world."

"Writers are supposed to be the moral compass of society."

"The tragedy of our world today is that it is unjust."

"Everything that can be broken should be broken, so it can be rebuilt better."

"Our education system is designed to make us compliant, not conscious."

"Small gestures of resistance matter more than we think."