I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in their stories. — 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
And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none. — 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
You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many… — 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
The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and… — 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
Islam doesn't have to mean blind faith. It can mean what it always meant in your family, a culture, a civilization, as… — 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
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
“So-called Islamic 'fundamentalism' does not spring, in Pakistan, from the people. It is imposed on them from above. Autocratic regimes find it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“During his illness he had spent every minute of consciousness calling upon God, every second of every minute. Ya Allah whose servant… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I want to suggest to you that citizens of free societies, democracies, do not preserve their freedom by pussyfooting around their fellow-citizen's… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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 Image
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/c44/salman-rushdie-153_accepting_to-put-it-as-simply-as-possible-i-am-not_245927.jpg)
