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.
SALMAN RUSHDIEFaith without doubt is addiction.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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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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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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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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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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We all owe death a life.
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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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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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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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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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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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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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