Mishra: Age of Anger
Summary: Age of Anger by Mishra (Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2017)). (Stub — expand from highlights.)
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Source pages: Quotes batch 14
Quote pages: Mishra — Age of Anger
Last updated: 2026-05-07
Quotes
Social Identity and Resentment
“The modern world promises equality but delivers a hierarchy that feels more personal and more permanent than any that came before.” (p. 42)
Society
“We are living in an age where the individual is told they can be anything, while the society makes it impossible for them to be anything at all.” (p. 115)
Critical Thinking
“Anger is a cognitive failure; it is the moment when the complexity of the world becomes too much to bear.” (p. 256)