"Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set……" — Salman Rushdie
"Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God."
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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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More Blasphemy Quotes
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and…
— Annie Besant
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of…
— Annie Besant
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea.…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is…
— Mark Twain
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Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a…
— Martin Luther
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I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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