Arundhati Roy Quotes

In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yetappeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.

Things couldn't stay the same forever.

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country.

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

All that is solid melts into air. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Change is certain. Progress is not.

Give us 20 years, and you'll not recognize this country!

The new frontier is here whether we seek it or not.

The social revolution of the nineteenth century can not draw its poetry from the past, it can draw that only from the future.

I do not fear … rupture—rupture with habits of thought, with ideas, with behaviors of the past that have prevented us from advancing, from grasping the future between our two arms … I want a rupture with conformity … with half heartedness … with conservatism … with immobility. This rupture I believe necessary. This rupture I have betrothed myself to. This rupture the French people have approved. This rupture I will perform.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

The one thing I do know is change is coming so quickly

The right of the revolution is the right of the future.

The future belongs to those who change it.

The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.

This is the age of disruption.

The things that worked for us in the past wasn't going to work the same way going forward.

Regardless of politics, our world will continue to change rapidly.