My Revolutions Quotes

“There was, as she put it, nothing to stop me. So I followed the path of educated misfits through the ages and got a job in a bookshop.”
― Hari Kunzru, MY REVOLUTIONS

“Legality is just the name for everything that's not dangerous for the ruling order.”
― Hari Kunzru, My Revolutions

“You're too old to be saying to me, as you did recently, that you weren't 'interested in politics'. You're lucky that politics feels optional, something it's safe to ignore. Most people in the world have it forced on them”
― Hari Kunzru, My Revolutions

“All things are transitory. All things must pass. Attachments whether to material possessions, to people, to places to name, are futile. Despite your clinging, these things will fade away.”
― Hari Kunzru, My Revolutions

“Several times in my life I've gone through long periods without sex or any other kind of physical contact. The hunger it produces is deep and low; it's possible to lose track of it, to forget or fail to perceive how it's emptied everything out of you and made the world papery and thin. Touch starved, you brush against existence like a stick against dry leaves. You become insubstantial yourself, a hungry ghost.”
― Hari Kunzru, MY REVOLUTIONS

“Confrontation is always a sign of failure. When the system is working, the energies of those who resist it are always diffused, our anger spiraling down into some soft and foggy place where there's no obvious enemy, just a row of civil service desks and a faint, receding peal trumpets.”
― Hari Kunzru, My Revolutions

“Every small pleasure was bleached out by the knowledge that elsewhere such horror existed.”
― Hari Kunzru, My Revolutions