"Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon……" — Salman Rushdie
"Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence."
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482 Quotes by Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie has 482 quotes on this site.
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of…
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which,…
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Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the…
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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds…
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Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming.…
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Good advice is rarer than rubies.
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In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence…
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For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
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A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but…
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Free speech is life itself.
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After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
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If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to…
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More Axes Quotes
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We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.
— Jeb Bush
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever…
— Thomas Carlyle
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To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world…
— Louise Bogan
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An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of…
— Linus Pauling
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I've been playing the CNN Drinking Game, have you ever played that? Where you do a shot every time George…
— Doug Stanhope
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Whether it's the Axis of Evil, or the evils of eating meat, it is a concept that has all but…
— Corey Taylor
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What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes
— Franklin P. Adams
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It could just be a shift on the axis.
— Unknown Author
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However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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