Activity Quote by Pankaj Mishra

“Gandhi saw how people have to re-think their own individuality before engaging in political activity. Otherwise they're just playing the game that the adversary has set out.” quote by Pankaj Mishra — Download Open image

“Gandhi saw how people have to re-think their own individuality before engaging in political activity. Otherwise they're just playing the game that the adversary has set out.”

Pankaj Mishra

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Activity Adversaries Engaging Games Individuality People Playing The Game Political Saws Thinking

More by Pankaj Mishra

“Nationalism has again become a seductive but treacherous antidote to an experience of disorder and meaninglessness: the unexpectedly rowdy anticlimax, in a densely populated…

Pankaj Mishra

Image

I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and I don't…

Pankaj Mishra

Image

There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up and gave…

Pankaj Mishra

Image

Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.

Pankaj Mishra

Image

Our tolerance of the intolerable found a low threshold as early as the late 1950s with the grotesque excesses of McCarthyism, which destroyed so…

Pankaj Mishra

Image

Freedom of speech doesn't guarantee great literature.

Pankaj Mishra

Image

“As Keynes wrote, with devastating understatement, ‘The age of economic internationalism was not particularly successful in avoiding war.”

Pankaj Mishra

Image

“Voltaire was soon turned, with Catherine’s encouragement, into a patron saint for the secular Russian aristocracy. Voltairianism, vaguely signifying rationalism, scepticism and reformism, became…

Pankaj Mishra

Image

“Today, the belief in progress, necessary for life in a Godless universe, can no longer be sustained, except, perhaps, in the Silicon Valley mansions…

Pankaj Mishra

Image

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

Image

I don't think of myself as particularly earnest. I have long bouts of cynicism and skepticism. So much of my early life was full…

Pankaj Mishra

Image

“Marx reproduced medieval and Reformation millenarian expectations in his utopia of a classless, stateless society.”

Pankaj Mishra

Image

Explore all 147 Pankaj Mishra quotes

More Activity quotes

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that…

Henry Giroux

Image

It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought…

Pope Leo XIII

Image

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

Plato

Image

And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people…

Mohsin Hamid