Field Notes on Democracy Quotes

“They’re mostly rich folk who live in our poor country like captive animals, incarcerated by their own wealth, locked and barred in their gilded cages, protecting themselves from the threat of the vulgar and unruly multitudes whom they have systematically dispossessed over the centuries.”
― Arundhati Roy, Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy

“To those who have learned to divorce hope from reason”
― Arundhati Roy, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers