It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions. Salman Rushdie More Quotes by Salman Rushdie More Quotes From Salman Rushdie No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time. Salman Rushdie tomorrow yesterday people I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other. Salman Rushdie weapons order people [My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves. Salman Rushdie self song It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb. Salman Rushdie dumb feels What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust. Salman Rushdie heat fantasy lust I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.' Salman Rushdie twilight war looks The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power. Salman Rushdie roles speak artist Every Day Is for the Thief, by turns funny, mournful, and acerbic, offers a portrait of Nigeria in which anger, perhaps the most natural response to the often lamentable state of affairs there, is somehow muted and deflected by the author's deep engagement with the country: a profoundly disenchanted love. Teju Cole is among the most gifted writers of his generation. Salman Rushdie gifted-writers portraits country If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar. Salman Rushdie islam voice order To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of 'dissing,' then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police. Salman Rushdie dissing police religion To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim.[...] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I have never in my adult life affirmed any belief, and what one has not affirmed one can not be said to have apostasized from. The Islam I know states clearly that 'there can be no coercion in matters of religion'. The many Muslims I respect would be horrified by the idea that they belong to their faith purely by virtue of birth, and that a person who freely chose not to be a Muslim could therefore be put to death. Salman Rushdie islam ideas religion I don't think it is always necessary to take up the anti-colonial -- or is it post-colonial? -- cudgels against English. What seems to me to be happening is that those people who were once colonized by the language are now rapidly remaking it, domesticating it, becoming more and more relaxed about the way they use it -- assisted by the English language's enormous flexibility and size, they are carving out large territories for themselves within its frontiers. Salman Rushdie use people thinking We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love. Salman Rushdie kissing fashion cutting We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride. Salman Rushdie sacrifice pride men I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor. Salman Rushdie language forgotten thinking It is commonly and, I believe, accurately said of Pakistan that her women are much more impressive than her men. Salman Rushdie pakistan men believe The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff. Salman Rushdie stuff feels way The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument. Salman Rushdie imagination death people Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind. Salman Rushdie rivals imagination mind Home has become such a scattered, damaged, various concept in our present travails. There is so much to yearn for. There are so few rainbows any more. Salman Rushdie various rainbow home
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