"History could claw upward as well as down.……" — Salman Rushdie
"History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor."
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Nature, red in tooth and claw.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a…
— Fred Bear
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Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed…
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If anyone tells you that you can't achieve your dreams, or puts you down, make your hand into a claw…
— Lady Gaga
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Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw.…
— Victor Hugo
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The Goddess is not separate from the world – She IS the world, and all things in it: moon, sun,…
— Starhawk
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I get a lot of teenagers going, 'Yo, Krueger,' and honking their horn and giving me the claw. Yeah, I'm…
— Robert Englund
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The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains…
— Tom DeLay
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People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor…
— Victor Hugo
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Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did…
— Lynn Margulis
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