Arundhati Roy

"Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action despite terror."

"Perseverance is faith applied to time."

"Kindness remembered is kindness multiplied."

"Strength is the capacity to hold paradox without breaking."

"Fear is just the absence of understanding."

"The most revolutionary act is to refuse to participate."

"The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out."

"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you."

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

"I think it's terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people's expectations. They produce what is expected of them - something controlled, something tamped down."

"The only dream worth having, I think, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead."

"Wars are not fought only on battlefields. They're fought in the hearts and minds of civilians at home as well."

"Silence is also a form of collaboration."

"The personal is political and the political is personal, but the trouble is most people don't see it that way."

"Real power has to do with happiness. It's the ability to stop and smell the roses, as they say."

"I believe in the transformation that comes from being fully present and fully aware of what's happening around you."

"The moment you fall in love with something, it becomes part of your own emotional landscape forever."

"We're asked to believe that the free market will save the earth, but the free market has created all these problems."

"Being a writer means you can change things by the way you write about them."

"Fear is the most powerful thing in the world and it's what makes people do terrible things."

"What does it mean to teach a young person about truth in a world built on lies?"

"The only thing worth globalizing is kindness and the ability to understand one another."

"In the end, it's not about winning or losing. It's about bearing witness and speaking the truth."

"Every empire believes it's different, believes its own violence is justified, believes its own propaganda."

"Technology is not neutral. The way we use it, the way it's designed, reflects power structures."

"Nature doesn't have a policy. Nature is just being itself and we have to respect that."

"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."

"To be 'reasonable' in an age of madness is itself a form of resistance."

"Art is one of the few spaces where you can still tell the truth without being interrupted."

"Money doesn't change people, it just unmasks them. It allows them to be what they always wanted to be."