Criticism Quote by Salman Rushdie

“The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare…

— Salman Rushdie

The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

— Salman Rushdie

“Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us unwilling to criticize ideas that are increasingly maladaptive and patently ridiculous.”

— Sam Harris

“A new idea, inconsistent with some of the beliefs which he holds, means the necessity of rearranging his mind; and this process is laborious,…

— John Bagnell Bury

“However superficially appealing, the idea that a religious tradition could be saved from crisis because a group of intellectuals radically reinterpreted its sacred texts…

— Ross Douthat

“An idea is a very powerful thing, and political ideas or religious ideas or economic ideas have always affected and often controlled the courses…

— J.C. Wylie

Nobody has the right to shield any idea as so sacred it can’t be challenged. ... Almost all human progress is driven by people…

— Glenn Greenwald

“We've learned too well to become good theoreticians, but have not learned to be good practitioners of what we preach. When ideas from books…

— Cristina Metzli Tzintzun

“Ideas will never give you what you want. You want the simplicity of being. The peace that surpasses understanding. The reality of what is.”

— Joey Lott

“At any given moment, there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas, which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.…

— Anonymous

“Ideas will never give you what you want. You want the simplicity of being. The peace that surpasses understanding. The reality of what is.…

— Joey Lott

“Freedom is what's left when the belief systems deconstruct.”

— Dana Gore