"Free speech is life itself." — Salman Rushdie

"Free speech is life itself."

— 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…
After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
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 Censorship Quotes

This quote is filed under Censorship Quotes, one of 350 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. — Julian Assange
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. — John Perry Barlow
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. — Pierre Beaumarchais
You can cage the singer but not the song. — Harry Belafonte
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. — Arnold Bennett
You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and… — Jello Biafra
I don't believe in censorship in any form. — Kathryn Bigelow
Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together,… — Judy Blume
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. — Dick Cavett
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the… — Noam Chomsky
We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of.… — Theodore Dreiser
We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print. — Mark Twain

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