45+ Vijay Prashad Quotes On Marriage, Happiness And America

Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, journalist, and commentator. He is the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is also the Chief Editor of LeftWord Books and the Executive Director of the India International Centre in New Delhi. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Vijay Prashad on love, marriage, life.

Top 10 Vijay Prashad Quotes

1. I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation.
2. The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.
3. Where there is a living memory of struggle, they have a living memory of the rebellion. Where there's no struggle afterward the rebellion is forgotten.
4. The United States is facing serious pushback from Turkey, which is not comfortable with the view that the Islamic State is a terrorist organization.
5. The question of international norms or international resolutions, you know, coming from Mr. Obama is not really about whether there are international norms or resolutions to uphold.
6. You cannot have politics without building mass-movements.
7. From 1991 till the present, Iraq sovereignty has been trampled by the United States.
8. When you are threatened, when your life is threatened, you have to fight back.
9. There are cultures that produce different kinds of attitudes, whether it's religion, fatalism, sense of fear, repression, the culture of God and the police minimizes confidence in people.
10. There's a different use for different strategies.

Vijay Prashad Short Quotes

• I don't recall an American president basically coming out and criticizing the Israeli public.
• Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.
• People who become important activists, they also struggle with the process of discovery.
• To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable.
• Leadership is another word for preparation.
• There's a right-wing shift in Israeli society, very hard right shift.
• It's important to reflect about what's happening inside Israel.
• It's Israelis who are ready to abandon the hard work of peace.

Vijay Prashad Famous Quotes And Sayings

It is convenient for Hillary Clinton and Tony Blair to say the rise of the Islamic State has nothing to do with the Iraq War because that takes the culpability off their shoulders. The Islamic State is a product of the Iraq War. It took about a 100 years to build the Iraqi state, and the Americans and the British destroyed it in an afternoon. — Vijay Prashad

There's no UN resolution that allows the United States to carry out operations in Syria. You'll remember that in Libya in 2011 there was a great hoopla made about the importance of getting a UN resolution. Here there was no attempt to get any resolution. They simply bombed in Syria. — Vijay Prashad

All evidence suggests that Turkey has allowed ISIS fighters, when they've been injured, to return into Turkey and to get treated in Turkey's hospitals. — Vijay Prashad

I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity. — Vijay Prashad

I think a far more important strategic way to deal with the Islamic State would be to bring some of these regional partners and explain to them that Turkey's own contradictory foreign policy has to end. I mean, if United States is serious, it has leverage over Turkey. And apparently it has not been able to move Turkey sufficiently. — Vijay Prashad

People were, in good faith perhaps, writing history books about the Indian working class, Indian peasantry, et cetera, and at no point did Communists make an entry, not even to be criticized. They were essentially being whitewashed from history. — Vijay Prashad

You see often it's not ideas, it's inertia, it's bureaucratism, it's all the other things that sometimes come in the way of a good idea. — Vijay Prashad

There are people who are saying that they voted twice for Mr. Obama and they are now feeling a great sense of regret, not only over Guantanamo, etc., but now perhaps the entry into a new war in West Asia. — Vijay Prashad

Mr. Obama needs to make a phone call to Ankara and have a serious conversation about why the current government in Turkey isn't going to seal its border, why it doesn't take a stronger position against the Islamic State. — Vijay Prashad

There are several studies done of peasant uprisings where the first chapter might be 'conditions in that area' and so the conditions are bad, and then the second chapter is a kind of conjectural event, somebody's shot and then there's an uprising. But there's no consideration, no chapter on preparation. — Vijay Prashad

In times when the tempo for struggle is not very high, you prepare populations by conducting acts of courage-building, confidence-building, respect for each other. That's what the preparation is about and it requires leadership. — Vijay Prashad

The Islamic State is able to raise finances through taxation, through theft of banks, and certainly through oil sales from the Omar oilfields in eastern Syria. So right now the question of funding isn't of the essence. — Vijay Prashad

Turkey is using the Islamic State in the same way as Pakistan used the Taliban in Afghanistan. You know, that's perhaps Turkey's strategy. — Vijay Prashad

Mr. Obama at the UN said that the large nations should not trample small ones in pursuit of what he called "territorial ambition". These are curious statements coming from the American president at this time. — Vijay Prashad

You see all kinds of anarchic forms of rebellion, but the moment of preparation is when the Communists and other kinds of political forces play a roll. — Vijay Prashad

We have to be vigilant on two fronts: (1) to not let our anti-imperialism lead to the defense of authoritarian regimes in the region and (2) to not let our enthusiasm for rebellion lead to cheering on the cruise missiles from US warships. These two sirens should worry us as we make our hesitant way alongside the rebirth of a New Left in the Arab world. — Vijay Prashad

However you define territorial ambitions, it need not be a country that's right next to the U.S. for it to exercise its extraterritorial or territorial ambitions. — Vijay Prashad

Over the last two or so decades, there's been an increase in thinking among the Left, liberals, intellectuals in the direction of so-called spontaneity. In other words that uprisings happen spontaneously, people are frustrated, angry, then they spontaneously rise up. And what they don't require is preparation, or what we used to call leadership. — Vijay Prashad

It's plain that the American right wing, the Republicans and some sections of the Democratic Party, don't really care about international norms. They believe in the executive authority of the president. They don't even believe the United Nations or international law should play any role vis-à-vis American policymaking. — Vijay Prashad

Interestingly, what the bourgeois women's groups in India wanted to do in the nationalist period is to have the peasant women essentially follow them... They would be the leaders and the peasant women would be the masses. — Vijay Prashad

Interestingly, if you write preparation out of history, leadership and preparation, the building of confidence among people who are exploited, you've actually methodologically written out the Communists because, when an uprising takes place, you don't necessarily see red flags everywhere. — Vijay Prashad

When anarchists are having a debate, they're having a debate about tactics, 'Should you do this?', 'Should you do that?' The question isn't 'Should you do this?', 'Should you do that?', the primary question is how do you build confidence among the masses of people who experience hierarchies, who experience exploitation, who experience oppression. — Vijay Prashad

We would like to participate in manifestations, in Occupies and things like that. We would like to be involved in a march. But we don't actually see the very hard work that goes to build confidence towards those events. And we don't have a shared discussion. — Vijay Prashad

To be a Communist or to be somebody who believes in the future is a curious thing. So you have to live with people around you, you have to be with the people. — Vijay Prashad

The Chinese did after all decide that the Soviet Union was a greater threat than the United States and decided to come to terms with the United States when Nixon visits China. — Vijay Prashad

Organizing is always a relationship between the person who arrives and says 'Let's meet together' and the person who comes to the meeting. — Vijay Prashad

We come from the future, essentially, because we have all these ideas about gender equality, sexual freedom, and these are not shared by the working class, the peasantry among whom we work. — Vijay Prashad

Life Lessons by Vijay Prashad

1. Vijay Prashad's work highlights the importance of understanding the historical context of global events and the need to challenge dominant narratives.
2. He emphasizes the importance of understanding the history of colonialism and imperialism in order to understand the present.
3. He also stresses the need to recognize the agency of the oppressed and to create a more equitable and just world.