"The great concern is that year after year,……" — Salman Rushdie
"The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other."
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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 Combatants Quotes
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On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the…
— Eric Burdon
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It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent…
— Joichi Ito
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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going…
— P. W. Singer
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At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they…
— Barry McCaffrey
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If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental…
— Unknown Author
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Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants
— Richard Eberhart
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We are cast as combatants in the war between truth and error. There is no middle ground. We must stand…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both…
— Buenaventura Durruti
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The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should…
— Cofer Black
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