“In the 1950s and 60s, geopolitical intrigues did not much engage masse...” — Pankaj Mishra Quote

“In the 1950s and 60s, geopolitical intrigues did not much engage masses in Asia and Africa; it was something for elites to sort out.”

“A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution.”

“If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.”

“The sucking sound of capital being pulled out of Europe and into East Asia is almost deafening.”

“China will consider herself fortunate if she succeeds in keeping herself intact and is not dismembered or partitioned among the European powers that are colonizing the continent of Asia.”

“We sign $1 million contracts in Asia and Russia and get treated like royalty but when we are here in America we are flying in the back of the plane in economy, playing back-to-backs.”