Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion'. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“This is how religions shore up dictators; by encircling them with words of power, words which the people are reluctant to see… — 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
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
“The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“If you were an atheist, Birbal," the Emperor challenged his first minister, "what would you say to the true believers of all… — 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
I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Mahound comes to me for revelation, asking me to choose between monotheist and henotheist alternatives, and I'm just some idiot actor having… — 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
“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
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. — 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 India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no… — 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
As human knowledge has grown, it has also become plain that every religious story ever told about how we got here is… — 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
There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to… — 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
I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time. — 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
