If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
SALMAN RUSHDIESomething was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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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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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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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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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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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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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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