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Those Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- 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.
- Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
- I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that…
- There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of…
- I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of…
- I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?'…
- In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both…
- One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew…
- The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by…
- This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to…
- 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…
- When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms.…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle