Book Quote by Maurice Cowling

Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.

— Orson Scott Card

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

— Salman Rushdie

“Satan has frightened men from reading the sacred writings, and has rendered Holy Scriptures contemptible, so as to ensure his poisonous philosophy to prevail…

— Martin Luther

“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible…

— Thomas Paine

“I’ll admit that both atheists and Christians are guilty of cherry-picking the Bible.  In a book so long and rambling, I suppose that there’s…

— Noah Lugeons

That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were…

— Charles Caleb Colton

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by the…

— Henry David Thoreau

I opposed the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie. I read the book and took a critical distance. I did not think The Satanic Verses is…

— Tariq Ramadan

“I don’t think you do,’ said Father Brown, with simplicity. ‘You say this thing was done by spiritual powers. What spiritual powers? You don’t…

— G.K. Chesterton

This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the…

— Henry Miller