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

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• From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Night
  • Day
  • Dark

• It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Age

• Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Home
  • Thought
  • Playing

• I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • School
  • Wish

• I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Never
  • Him
  • Even

• I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • People
  • Me
  • Thoughts

• I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Win
  • Lose
  • Tough

• I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Great
  • Dangerous
  • Artists

• There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Friendship

• When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Time
  • Blood
  • Battle

• I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Same
  • Intelligence
  • View

• I know I'm profane. And outspoken.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Know
  • Outspoken
  • Profane

• My job is to help more people have jobs.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Job
  • Help

• Ability is nothing without opportunity.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Opportunity
  • Ability

• Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Control
  • Trump
  • Health care

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• If you're self-employed, between jobs, or can't get insurance through work, you'll have access to affordable health insurance as good as Congressman Paul Ryan's.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Good
  • Work
  • Health

• I was a college student in 1989 when I participated in the demonstration at Tiananmen Square. I was one of the organizers.

  

  Li Lu
  • College

• on the Aston Martin DB7 sat-nav Then there's the satellite navigation system which is the most complicated sat-nav system in the world. And the wrongest. Always wants to take you to Bedford. Even if you want to go to Manchester, it wants to go to Bedford, that's all it knows. You want to go somewhere? 'Sure, I'll take you to Bedford.'

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • World

• It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • War
  • Breed
  • Swords

• 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
  • War
  • Progress
  • End