Category: Salman Rushdie

“Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.”
-Salman Rushdie

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
-Salman Rushdie

“Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.”
-Salman Rushdie

“There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.”
-Salman Rushdie

“A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.”
-Salman Rushdie

“In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.”
-Salman Rushdie

“If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.”
-Salman Rushdie

“If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.”
-Salman Rushdie

“If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.”
-Salman Rushdie