Faith without doubt is addiction.
SALMAN RUSHDIEIt 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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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Reality is a question of perspective.
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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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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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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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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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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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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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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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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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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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We are the storytelling animal.
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