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Salman Rushdie

"It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions."

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"It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions."

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"Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support."

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"The Church of England is the Tory party at prayer."

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"Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."

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"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."

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"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."

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"If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!"

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"A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies."

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"On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!"

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"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."

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"To vote or not... it really doesn't matter it = 1 vote... as for the others with one vote somebody could beat you."

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Salman Rushdie
"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."

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Salman Rushdie
"What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry."

Imagination

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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."

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Salman Rushdie
"I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents."

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Salman Rushdie
"For to the arguments of great thinkers there is no end, the idea of argument itself being a tool to improve the mind, the sharpest of all tools, born of the love of knowledge, which is to say, philosophy."

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Salman Rushdie
"If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent."

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Salman Rushdie
"Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence."

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Salman Rushdie
"It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics."

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"The first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time."

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"Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes."

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