All ARUNDHATI ROY Quotes about “War”

“Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.”
“There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.”
“Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.”
“People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds and smother thought, and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury their willing dead.”
“Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.”
“Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.”
“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.”
“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.”

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