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My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
After the oil crisis of 1973, many European countries tightened restrictions on immigrants. By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the West to political and economic turmoil at home. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in a high degree of tension with impulses toward corruption, toward violence, toward all sorts of things. The Dalai Lama himself would say that he has to fight these impulses himself on a daily basis. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
In India, love often follows marriage. I know many people who are still very deeply in love with their wives, who they barely knew before they were married. In America there’s this idea that how could someone get married without being deeply in love with each other? but in a lot of these cases feelings of love and affection actually grow after they’ve been legally and formally brought together. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
It turns out that globalisation, while promising sameness through brand-name consumption, was fostering, through uneven economic growth, an intense feeling of difference. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
Policymakers can draw much from ‘The Need for Roots’: such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
Tanpinar presciently feared that to embrace the western conception of progress was to be mentally enslaved by a whole new epistemology, one that compartmentalised knowledge and concealed an instrumental view of human beings as no more than things to be manipulated. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
I suppose I’ve become less judgmental about individuals leading lives according to false ideas and false consciousness, because sometimes entire societies are prey to false ideologies and national delusions. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
Indonesia’s diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment’s greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
To think that land reform is going to somehow automatically create an equitable system, I think that’s just wrong. It’s a very technical view of the world. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was a great example of that. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
There is a lot of anxiety in India about writers selling out to foreign audiences, but I’m neither flattering the Indian audience nor the American audience. I’m uneasily somewhere in the middle. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
The American writer is a very pampered figure - by foundations, by fellowships, by publishing advances. Even though I am not American, I have been pampered enough myself to know how it can make your life too frictionless. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first. (Pankaj Mishra Quotes)
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