I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
SALMAN RUSHDIEFree 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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I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.
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You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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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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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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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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Only the foolish, blinded by language’s conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it’s melancholy rim, green in it’s envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it’s greatest rages, black.
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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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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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We all owe death a life.
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Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don’t prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn’t prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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