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Beings Quotes by 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 knee whether to…
- Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
- An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
- Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and…
- 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…
- Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of… — David Attenborough
- I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race… — James A. Baldwin
- What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore de Balzac
- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their… — Douglas Adams