"One of the strange things about violent and……" — Salman Rushdie
"One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity."
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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 Authoritarian Quotes
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And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all…
— Madeleine Albright
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The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions…
— Paulo Freire
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A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population…
— Friedrich Engels
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Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an…
— Thomas Naylor
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Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one…
— Unknown Author
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A state does not simply fall apart as a result of depression... [Weimar Germany] was not destroyed by economic depression…
— Sebastian Haffner
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Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that…
— Germaine Greer
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Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry…
— Paulo Freire
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RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and…
— Bertrand Russell
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Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development ,…
— Simon Baron-Cohen
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I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never…
— Mickey Rourke
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But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the-that…
— George W. Bush
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