The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion'. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“It is hard for a person of no faith like myself to comprehend the moment when faith dies in the human heart.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. My father wasn't religious at all. But he was… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Mahound comes to me for revelation, asking me to choose between monotheist and henotheist alternatives, and I'm just some idiot actor having… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
As human knowledge has grown, it has also become plain that every religious story ever told about how we got here is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Morality came before religion, and religion was our ancestors' way of responding to that built-in need. And if that was so, then… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“She made only one educational stipulation: religious instruction. Unlike Aziz, who was racked by ambiguity, she had remained devout. 'You have your… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
And using that - the birth of a religion, it suggests that you have got two tests. You have the test of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The rate of change is global now. I think there's a kind of mind that is so ill at ease with that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The police arrived and went to question the driver of the truck, who was still sitting in his cab, scratching his head.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He was learning that to win a fight like this, it was not enough to know what one was fighting against. That… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“If you were an atheist, Birbal," the Emperor challenged his first minister, "what would you say to the true believers of all… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt. The human… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim.[...] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Religion was the glue of Pakistan, holding the halves together; just as consciousness, the awareness of oneself as a homogenous entity in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
![“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…” quote by Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c44/salman-rushdie-153_accepting_to-put-it-as-simply-as-possible-i-am-not_245927.jpg)
