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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.

Salman Rushdie

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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Book Essence Fall In Love Growth Leaving Production Reading Strange
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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Evil Existence Expression Goodness History Ideas People Understand
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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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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Chocolate Friendship Life
Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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Freedom Liberty Yourself
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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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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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 think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It’s very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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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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You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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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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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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