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Other 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 idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas -…
- In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from…
- There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of…
- The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as…
- The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and…
- When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that…
- Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that the ugliness of…
- 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 was…
- Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.
- India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.
- I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on…
- Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour