Arundhati Roy Quotes

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

There are people all over the world starving and here we are trying to get pot delivered for free; we felt kind of guilty.

Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone

Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an "inspection regime" - recording, watching, gathering information and storing data.

I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.

I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then world peace.

I believe that one of the saddest things in the world today is that some people don't have enough food to nourish themselves. It's the 21st century and that's really not acceptable, so if I could do something that would change that I would be really happy.

I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.

All I'm armed with is research.

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.

A great many decisions just can’t be made with confidence because the data just doesn’t exist …. [however] just because we don’t have the information doesn’t mean that we can’t get it.

Why can’t we collect all the signals, all the time?

People are hungry for what's happening right now in the world.

For me myself, I feel it's always interesting gathering data. I have my team who do that. I think they feed me through specific things that I might find valuable.

It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.

The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.

Your problems pale in comparison with those of the millions of people in the world who do not have enough to eat.

The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.

They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.

In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.

If you just talk to who's easy to talk to, you're not really getting the best data.

As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.

Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die every day in childbirth, and children die every day from drinking dirty water. Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.

[Mahatma] Ghandi said in a world with so many hungry people it just makes sense that God would come as food. God sent the living bread and the living water in a world where there is so much thirst and so much hunger.