"After a long, hopeless war, people will settle……" — Salman Rushdie

"After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price."

— Salman Rushdie

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482 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie has 482 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of…
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which,…
Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the…
There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds…
Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming.…
Good advice is rarer than rubies.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence…
For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but…
Free speech is life itself.
If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to…
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to…

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More Antiwar Quotes

This quote is filed under Antiwar Quotes, one of 356 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. — Francis Bacon
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies… — Edward Abbey
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man… — John Adams
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. — John Adams
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. — Bernard Baruch
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. — Simone de Beauvoir
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own… — Joseph Addison
All war represents a failure of diplomacy. — Tony Benn
It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. — Alfred Adler

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