If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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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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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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The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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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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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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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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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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