“The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't find its enemy, for the sake of the enraged folks back home, it will have to manufacture one. Once war begins, it will develop a momentum, a logic and a justification of its own, and we'll lose sight of why it's being fought in the first place.” IfsFirstsWellsWarHomeAmericaLosesEnemyTroubleReturnLogicSightSakeFolksJustificationMomentumBack Home Book:Power Politics Source: Power Politics
“I know that a world in which countries are stockpiling nuclear weapons and using them in the ways that India and Pakistan and America do to oppress others and to deceive their own people is a dangerous world.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayCountryAmericaDangerousWeaponsIndiaNuclearNuclear WeaponsDeceivingPakistanDangerous WorldIndia And Pakistan Author:Arundhati Roy
“When was the last time the United States won a war? You know, it lost in Vietnam. It's lost in Afghanistan. It's lost in Iraq. And it will not be able to contain the situation. It is hemorrhaging. It is now - you know, of course you can continue with drone attacks, and you can continue these targeted killings, but on the ground, a situation is being created which no army - not America, not anybody - can control. And it's just, you know, a combination of such foolishness, such a lack of understanding of culture in the world.” KnowsWorldWarStatesAbleLastsAmericaCultureCoursesLostUnderstandingUnitedSituationUnited StatesArmyKillingIraqCombinationAfghanistanVietnamLast TimeFoolishnessDronesLack Of Understanding Author:Arundhati Roy
“Whatever else their faults may be, they were not radical Islamist states - Iraq was not, Syria is not, Libya was not. The most radical fundamentalist Islamist state is, of course, your America's Saudi Arabia.” MayStatesAmericaCoursesFaultsIraqRadicalSyriaArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisFundamentalistLibyaIslamists Author:Arundhati Roy
“America is like some crazed, bewildered, rich giant bumbling around in a poor area with his pockets stuffed with money, and lots of weapons - just throwing stuff around.” AmericaStuffPoorRichWeaponsAreasGiantsPocketsThrowingBewildered Author:Arundhati Roy
“Your short-term gains are the rest of the world's long-term disasters - for everybody, including yourselves. And, I'm sorry, I've been saying you and the United States or America, when I actually mean the US government. There's a difference. Big one.” WorldMeanLongStatesBigsGovernmentAmericaTermDifferencesUnitedUnited StatesGainsSorryIncludingDisasterLong TermI'm SorryShort Term Author:Arundhati Roy
“It's all a play. Hiroshima and Nagasaki happen, there are hundreds of thousands of dead, and the curtain comes down, and that's the end of that. Then Korea happens. Vietnam happens, all that happened in Latin America happens. And every now and then, this curtain comes down and history begins anew. New moralities and new indignations are manufactured...in a disappeared history.” EndsPlayHappensAmericaHappenedMoralityDown AndLatinVietnamNow And ThenCurtainsKoreaLatin AmericaIndignationHiroshimaHiroshima And Nagasaki Author:Arundhati Roy
“Talk loud enough about human rights and it gives the impression of democracy at work, justice at work. There was a time when the United States waged war to topple democracies, because back then democracy was a threat to the Free Market. Countries were nationalising their resources, protecting their markets.... So then, real democracies were being toppled. They were toppled in Iran, they were toppled all across Latin America, Chile.” GivingHumansWarRealCountryStatesEnoughAmericaJusticeUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyRightsResourcesThreatHuman RightsImpressionLoudIranLatinFree MarketLatin AmericaChile Author:Arundhati Roy
“If you look at the history of the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller, in Latin America, in Indonesia, where almost a million people, mainly Communists, were killed by General Suharto, who was backed by the CIA, in South Africa, in the US Civil Rights Movement - or even now, it's very disturbing. They have always worked closely with the US State Department.” PeopleIfsLooksStatesAmericaMillionsRightsMovementFoundationSouthCivil RightsDepartmentLatinCommunistSouth AfricaDisturbingIndonesiaCiaCivil Rights MovementLatin America Author:Arundhati Roy
“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.” ThinkingWayHas BeensTwoAmericaNationsViolenceBloodProtectProjectsWeaponsIndiaClimateClimate ChangeNuclearDestroyedFranceGermanyBritainAustraliaNuclear WeaponsPakistanAnnihilationBelgiumGreat NationsIndia Pakistan Author:Arundhati Roy
“In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must not show the poor, it must not show the condition of black people. It can only the successful ones, basketball players, musicians, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell. But I think the time will come when the Occupy movement will have to somehow formulate something more than just anger.” PeopleThinkingWorldHas BeensShowsAmericaBlackPoorSuccessfulPlayerConditionsMovementBasketballMusicianModelsBlack PeopleRiceBasketball PlayerOccupy Movement Author:Arundhati Roy
“When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.” PeopleKnowsMeanDoeAmericaNumbersIdeologyFixedWipeTalibanSprung Author:Arundhati Roy
“The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.” WayMadeFactsAmericaFightingAbilityImpossibleWeaponsWitMade ItCunning Author:Arundhati Roy
“The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.” WorldWayAmericaLife IsAcknowledgeAmerican Way Of Life Author:Arundhati Roy
“Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?” PeopleHas BeensMadeWholeFactsMightAmericaPayAbuseArmyTortureAccountabilityPrisonerScandal Author:Arundhati Roy
