79 Quotes by Anand Giridharadas

When rooted, you observe how systems actually affect people.

One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement.

I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.

I have a weakness for treating people's economic interests as their only interest, ignoring things like belonging and pride and the desire to send a message to those who ignore you.

I am very happy to be an American. I realize what a valuable inheritance that is.

America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.

Americans don't realize how difficult it is to create a Harvard.

When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.

More than any other candidate, Mr. Trump embodies the evolving norms of communication that are being enabled and encouraged by technology and the matrix of connectivity that defines modern life: authenticity over authority, surprise over consistency, celebrity over experience.