To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
SALMAN RUSHDIELiberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It’s like that. If you’re going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.
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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.
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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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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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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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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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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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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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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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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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