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“As one unusually self-critical textile factory owner observed to me, reflecting on the system in which she played a nodal role, "There used to be a time when you could be a capitalist with personality. You could make your own decisions about what kind of ethos you wanted to create. Now it does not matter if you are a 'nice' person. It is completely irrelevant. We live in an age hen we all know what we do is disgusting but we still carry on doing it. The system we are part of feeds on desperation. And any system that demands such levels of desperation will produce more and more disorder, and the only way to keep everything in check will be the increasing militarisation of the world.”
― Rana Dasgupta, Capital: The Eruption of Delhi by Rana Dasgupta (6-Mar-2014) Hardcover

“Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“The day you become an adult is the day you realize that in Charleston, the worse something is, the less attention it receives.”
― Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

“Talk," he continued, chewing rapidly and swallowing, "is the key to liberation, one's tongue the very machete of freedom. We are the only species, some say, who have created speech. But that is only because, being far less intelligent than the majority of the other animals, and more prone to disastrous blunders, in our relationships with others, speech is so necessary.”
― Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar

“Make peace with those you love and that love you or with those you wish to love. These are your compañeros, as the latin Americans say. Above all, resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.”
― Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar

“No government's condemnation of terrorism is credible if it cannot show itself to be open to change by nonviolent dissent”
― Arundhati Roy, The End of Imagination

“The crisis in modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press, an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.”
― Arundhati Roy, The End of Imagination