The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to… — 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
Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of… — 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
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
Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those… — 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
Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form. — 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