"The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh……" — Salman Rushdie
"The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution."
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482 Quotes by Salman Rushdie
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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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In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation.…
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We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
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I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government.
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions…
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster…
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was…
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