I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits. I left home when I was sixteen and l….

Every strategy for real social change - land reform, education, public health, the equitable distribution of natural resources ... - has been cleverl….

The idea of justice - even just dreaming of justice - is revolutionary. The language of human rights tends to accept a status quo that is intrinsical….

Peace, Inc. is sometimes as worrying as War, Inc. It's a way of managing public anger. We're all being managed, and we don't even know it..

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….

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 ….

There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me..

All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, 'Oh, ….

In Iraq, until before the war, the women were scientists, museum directors, doctors. I'm not valourising Saddam Hussein or the Soviet occupation of A….

With one hand, you're selling the country out to Western multinationals. And with the other, you want to defend your borders with nuclear bombs. It's….

I think the Occupy movement will, or at least should, become a protean movement of ideas, as well as action, where the element of surprise remains wi….

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to..

I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of hatred that the Hindu….

In India the new government - the members of the radical Hindu Right who want India to be a 'Hindu Nation' - they're bigots. Butchers. Massacres are ….

I think my eyes were knocked open and they don't close. I sometimes wish I could close them and look away..

I don't have the Big Idea. I don't have the arrogance to even want to have the Big Idea. But I believe the physics of resisting power is as old as th….

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing..

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture..

The World Trade Organization, The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions virtually write economic policy and pa….

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 ….

When I'm outside the cities I do feel optimistic. There is such grandeur in India and so much beauty..