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Become Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion'. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
- The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the…
- I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some…
- Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust…
- Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
- I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
- I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
- If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
- The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
- I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a…
- I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it…
- Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they…
- An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky; it is grounded…
- I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and…
- We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.
- If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same…
- When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things as miracles, but…
- When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When were the fairy…
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- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle