Quote by Pankaj Mishra

“What’s crucial about Rousseau, and many of his ideological successors, is that politics was always personal for him, unlike those whom Tocqueville faulted for…

— Pankaj Mishra

“For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the rest, there has long been a readiness to…

— Chris Anderson

There is a lot in Adam Smith that reflects the insights of Rousseau and anticipates those of Marx.

— Allen W. Wood

“Wasting the valuable time of others, thought Rousseau, was a bureaucrat’s ultimate revenge.”

— Daniel Silva

“I placed no trust in faiths, doctrines, ideologies, institutions. Thus I could stand only upon my own feet. But I was a Pole, molded…

— Witold Gombrowicz

I would like to see more control and more criticism coming from Europe. The constant expressions of friendship for former President Eduard Shevardnadze, who…

— Irakli Okruashvili

The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but…

— Aleister Crowley

“The recent explosions, from India to the United States, of ressentiment against writers and journalists as well as politicians, technocrats, businessmen and bankers reveal…

— Pankaj Mishra

You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves

— Otto von Bismarck

“Lord Chatham, the King of Prussia, nay, Alexander the Great, never gained more in one campaign than the noble lord has lost-he has lost…

— David McCullough

“The inquiry begins with Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78), who was the first of the modern intellectuals, their archetype and in many ways the most influential…

— Paul Johnson

In a healthy, normal society, people can disagree with one another, even have diametrically opposing views, and this does not at all mean that…

— Olga Tokarczuk