From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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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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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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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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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.
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