Arundhati Roy - The Algebra of Infinite Justice (2001)

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

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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.

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We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.

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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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Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.

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The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government's policies, that are so hated.

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Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.

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