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Free Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- Free speech is life itself.
- Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
- One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
- Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
- If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
- It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
- If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems…
- Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't…
- Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's…
- But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for…
- The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
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