I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
thought I was doing two things. One is inquiring into the phenomenon of revelation, if you are not a religious person. But,… — 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
“In the home of this music, alas, religious fanatics have lately started killing the musicians. They think the music is an insult… — 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
I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's… — 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
I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an "affair"… And has it really… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Ideas are interesting to me, and religions are a place where ideas have been very subtly embodied for thousands of years. All… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“What sort of god could be excused the actions of his followers? Didn’t it, in a way, infantilise the deity to say… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own,' said Birbal, 'and so it is they who,… — 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
