A Quote by Pankaj Mishra

I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition which stood in the way of rational modern politics. I side with Gandhi, who wanted religious figures out of politics but also was suspicious of purely rational politics.

Pankaj Mishra

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Pankaj Mishra
Indian - Novelist
Born: 1969

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The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

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Mark Helprin

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Sadiq Khan

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Christopher Lasch

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I could have joined politics during Nehru's or Indira Gandhi's time. I don't want to. I stay away from these things.

Milkha Singh

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Alasdair MacIntyre

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Let me just say that the politics that I have are never the politics of poetics. I am not interested in politics. Politically, I am only very conscious of how we live and what we do right and what we do so awfully wrong.

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