How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
SALMAN RUSHDIEI have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they’re both amazing ways to understand human nature.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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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’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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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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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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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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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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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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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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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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The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
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You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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