Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.
Arundhati RoyNationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.
Arundhati RoyFrom being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge sums of money; a way of centralizing resources; a way of snatching rivers away from the poor and giving them to the rich. And so in a sense they've become monuments to corruption.
Arundhati Roy