Men Quotes by Salman Rushdie

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

— Salman Rushdie

“man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.”

— Salman Rushdie

It is commonly and, I believe, accurately said of Pakistan that her women are much more impressive than her men.

— Salman Rushdie

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

— Salman Rushdie

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

— Salman Rushdie

A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need…

— Salman Rushdie

Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I…

— Salman Rushdie

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my…

— Salman Rushdie

Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the…

— Salman Rushdie

Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of…

— Salman Rushdie

Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants…

— Salman Rushdie

Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can…

— Salman Rushdie

Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

— Salman Rushdie

Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men…

— Salman Rushdie

We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living…

— Salman Rushdie

But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire…

— Salman Rushdie

How does newness come into the world? How is it born? Of what fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made? How does it…

— Salman Rushdie

Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A…

— Salman Rushdie

You've got a generation of young men - almost all are young men - in situations of great economic hardship, where they…

— Salman Rushdie

It's difficult not to color our perception of author's product with his personality. There are so many examples of this. What do…

— Salman Rushdie

Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just…

— Salman Rushdie

The point is always reached after which the gods no longer share their lives with mortal men and women, they die or…

— Salman Rushdie

We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women…

— Salman Rushdie