We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
SALMAN RUSHDIEOf course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don’t prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn’t prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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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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We all owe death a life.
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It’s very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It’s also for people who you think of as reprehensible.
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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Reality is a question of perspective.
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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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