Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. A
  4. Arundhati Roy
  5. War

Arundhati Roy Quotes about War - Page 2

All Arundhati Roy Quotes Army Art Children Choices Corruption Country Darkness Democracy Evil Fascism Feelings Fighting Genocide Giving Globalization Grace Heart Home House Human Nature Human Rights Imagination Joy Justice Latin Life Lying Madness Memories Morality Motivational Nationalism Past Peace Poverty Progress Revolution Romance Running Terrorism Today Understanding Violence War quotes Water Worry Writing
Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it wasn't just your ordinary brand of friendly neighborhood frenzy. It was frenzy with a

Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it wasn't just your ordinary brand of friendly neighborhood frenzy. It was frenzy with a purpose. It ushered in an old doctrine in a new bottle: the doctrine of preemptive strike, also known as the United States can do whatever the hell it wants, and that's official. The war against Iraq has been fought and won, and no weapons of mass destruction have been found, not even a little one.

Arundhati Roy
Country, War, Iraq
Source: www.truth-out.org

Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened. In the country that she came from poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace Worse Things kept happening

Arundhati Roy
Country, War, Forever
Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.19, Penguin Books India

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.

Arundhati Roy
Country, Real, War
Source: www.truth-out.org

I think it was 50 million people across the world who marched against the war in Iraq. It was perhaps the biggest display of public morality in the world - you know, I mean, before the war happened. Before the war happened, everybody knew that they were being fed lies.

Arundhati Roy
War, Lying, Mean
Source: www.truth-out.org

The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the women in all these countries have been driven back into medieval situations. Women who were liberated, women who were doctors and lawyers and poets and writers and - you know, pushed back into this Shia set against Sunnis. The U.S. is supporting al-Qaeda militias all over this region and pretending that it's fighting Islam. So we are in a situation that is psychopathic.

Arundhati Roy
Country, War, Fighting
Source: www.truth-out.org

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.

Arundhati Roy
War, Army, Iraq
Source: www.truth-out.org

It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked to believe that the U.S. marines are actually on a feminist mission.

Arundhati Roy
War, Believe, Marine
Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.240, Haymarket Books

We're supposed to forget whatever happened in the past because 9/11 is where history begins. Okay, since 2001, how many wars have been started, how many countries have been destroyed? So now ISIS is the new evil - but how did that evil begin? Is it more evil to do what ISIS is doing, which is to go around massacring people - mainly, but not only, Shi'a - slitting throats? By the way, the US-backed militias are doing similar things, except they don't show beheadings of white folks on TV.

Arundhati Roy
Country, War, Past
Source: www.truth-out.org

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.

Arundhati Roy
War, Reason, Altruism
Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.68, South End Press

Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?

Arundhati Roy
Real, War, Gun
Arundhati Roy (1999). “The cost of living”, HarperCollins

I hope that that the people in the Occupy movement are politically aware enough to know that their being excluded from the obscene amassing of wealth of US corporations is part of the same system of the exclusion and war that is being waged by these corporations in places like India, Africa and the Middle East.

Arundhati Roy
War, People, Middle East
"Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'". Interview with Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

The only good thing about nuclear war is that it is the single most egalitarian idea that man has ever had. On the day of reckoning, you will not be asked to present your credentials. The devastation will be indiscriminate.

Arundhati Roy
War, Men, Ideas

You May Also Like: