The Age of Grievance Quotes

“Ambivalence and ambiguity aren't necessarily signs of weakness or sins of indecision. They can be apt responses to events we don't yet understand, with outcomes we can't predict.
But they don't make for bold sentences or tidy talking points.”
― Frank Bruni, The Age of Grievance

“LaFrance’s checklist of optimal conditions for it tracks dynamics that nurture grievance almost exactly: “highly visible wealth disparity, declining trust in democratic institutions, a perceived sense of victimhood, intense partisan estrangement based on identity, rapid demographic change, flourishing conspiracy theories, violent and dehumanizing rhetoric against the ‘other,’ a sharply divided electorate, and a belief among those who flirt with violence that they can get away with it.” Our grievances, unchecked, aren’t just ugly. They’re deadly.”
― Frank Bruni, The Age of Grievance

“Fisher elaborated on that in the book itself, a chilling portrait of profit-minded, audience-obsessed tech entrepreneurs devising formulas for engagement often antithetical to the values essential for democratic societies.”
― Frank Bruni, The Age of Grievance

“Most Americans don’t simply feel frustrated by those who disagree with them politically. They feel diminished, besieged, and imperiled by them.”
― Frank Bruni, The Age of Grievance

“What the left sees in the right and what the right sees in the left are almost the same: a bullying force intent on imposing its out-of-touch, out-of-whack values on unbelievers and on crushing them if they persist in their heresy.”
― Frank Bruni, The Age of Grievance

“The blame game was America’s most popular sport, and victimhood its most fashionable garb.”
― Frank Bruni, The Age of Grievance