Pankaj Mishra Quotes

We should wake up and tell ourselves: You're not a xenophobe, you're not a racist, you're not a crazy guy if you say, 'My culture is better than yours.'

There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.

When I was in Holland, the idea was, all cultures are equal and all are to be preserved. My idea was, no, all humans are equal, but not all cultures are equal.

Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!

We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization.

We're told the old-school imperialists were racists, that they thought of the wogs as inferior. But, if so, they at least considered them capable of improvement. The multiculturalists are just as racist. The only difference is that they think the wogs can never reform: ‘Good heavens, you can't expect a Muslim in Norway not to go about raping the womenfolk! Much better just to get used to it.’

In the multicultural West, our values are that we have no values: we accord all values equal value

No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.

People who put Europe in the center of the universe, they're very fragile.

Multiculturalism is based on the lie that all cultures are morally equal.

… our little brown brothers.

It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?

It was my idea for high culture and popular culture to be treated equally.

The idea of multiculturalism, that every culture is equal - that's not objectively true.

Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.

People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.

The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity - these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.

People are equal, cultures are not.

Safe Schools has been labelled a lot of things: Marxism, cultural relativism, 'grooming,' and part of something called the 'rainbow ideology.' But Safe Schools is not about imposing an ideology or an 'ism.' It's about teaching our kids to treat everyone equally, to understand rather than judge.

I connect deeply with SAVE's mission and I realize it doesn't matter which specific group you're fighting for, that everyone deserves equality, everyone deserves safety, and everyone deserves to be able to live their lives free of hate, fear and discrimination.

The Netherlands has been too tolerant to intolerant people for too long.

I just believe in standing up for people and against discrimination. I consider myself an advocate for human rights.

Paradoxically, we have become so ethnocentric in our relativism that we feel it is only okay for others - not us - to think their religion is superior!

I believe we are all equal and that's a value I've had since I was little. It's something I can believe in and I can show that to everyone.

Aren't we all human? Don't we all deserve to be respected and treated equally?