If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
SALMAN RUSHDIEIf somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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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 I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.
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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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Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
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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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But there’s one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.
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We all owe death a life.
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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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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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