What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
SALMAN RUSHDIEThe world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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We all owe death a life.
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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It’s like that. If you’re going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.
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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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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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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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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
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The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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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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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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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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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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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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