Arundhati Roy Quotes

We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

We are here to make another world.

There's so much power in seeing the possibility of change.

It's possible to watch 'Gone Girl' and feel that you have seen something terribly bleak. But it's also possible to receive it as good news. Any powerful articulation of the need for change is also a testimony to the possibility of change.

I propose changing fear for hope. I propose changing Mexico.

Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.

We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making.

Our task is to help replace ... despair with opportunity.

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

Something is stirring in the hearts and minds of the people.

The birthday of a new world is at hand.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

We are out to rebuild the world.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.

It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.