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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Salman Rushdie

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Freedom Game Life Talk
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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Constitution Freedom Religious Right Talk
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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Criticism Deserve Fear Religion Respect
Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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Thinking World Yourself
Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
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End People Weapon Word
Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It’s the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.
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Book Exploration Fiction Ideas Love Movie Science
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Legal Name
Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.
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Dreams Evil Fantasy Goodness Greatness Home Journey Man
You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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Ideas Modern Old Time Yourself
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.
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Head Literature Place Possible Secret Society Talk Voice Way
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life
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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Change Domination Live Power Story Thinking Time True
I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Book Myself Reading Writing
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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Blood Head Hide Mask
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Limitation Place Religious Thinking

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

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