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
“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
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
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
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
“What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the… — 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
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 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
“The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue.” — 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
“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
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. — 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought. — 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
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 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
“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
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
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
