I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
SALMAN RUSHDIETwo things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.
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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
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We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.
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Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they’re both amazing ways to understand human nature.
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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Only the foolish, blinded by language’s conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it’s melancholy rim, green in it’s envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it’s greatest rages, black.
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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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