"Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power." — Salman Rushdie

"Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power."

— 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.
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…

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More Atheist Quotes

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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from… — Aristotle
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode… — Aristotle
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the… — Douglas Adams
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. — Edward Abbey
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind… — John Adams
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism… — Joseph Addison
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. — Ambrose Bierce
I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can… — Jack Black
My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a… — Tony Blair

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