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Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
— Pankaj Mishra
My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
— Pankaj Mishra
As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties.
— Pankaj Mishra
After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
— Pankaj Mishra
In the 1950s and 60s, geopolitical intrigues did not much engage masses in Asia and Africa; it was something for elites to sort out.
— Pankaj Mishra
Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.
— Pankaj Mishra
Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
— Pankaj Mishra
The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.
— Pankaj Mishra
It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens.
— Pankaj Mishra
The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.
— Pankaj Mishra
If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
— Pankaj Mishra
Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.
— Pankaj Mishra
As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.
— Pankaj Mishra
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
The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.
— Pankaj Mishra
We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.
— Pankaj Mishra
Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
— Pankaj Mishra
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and consumption.
— Pankaj Mishra
The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.
— Pankaj Mishra
We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.
— Pankaj Mishra
I think what's important and extraordinarily practical about Buddhism, is that it offers very concrete methods for people to work with.
— Pankaj Mishra
I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.
— Pankaj Mishra
Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.
— Pankaj Mishra
Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically.
— Pankaj Mishra
