If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
SALMAN RUSHDIEPeople 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.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they’re both amazing ways to understand human nature.
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I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.
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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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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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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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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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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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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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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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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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