Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
Salman Rushdie
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Bombay
Rushdie
Joseph Anton
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
Fear
Phrases
Inspirational
Code
Become
Criticism
Ideas
Deserve
Disrespect
Life
Meaning
Satire
Like
Growth
Phrase
Respect
Fearless
Religion
Religions
More quotes by Salman Rushdie
What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'
Salman Rushdie
Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death.
Salman Rushdie
I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?
Salman Rushdie
I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
Salman Rushdie
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
Salman Rushdie
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
Salman Rushdie
So when I studied history at Cambridge, I did a special subject in that, exactly that. And then actually that - while I was studying it was where I came across the so-called incident of the satanic verses.
Salman Rushdie
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
Salman Rushdie
I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.
Salman Rushdie
The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
Salman Rushdie
There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many violent mutant strains.
Salman Rushdie
My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
Salman Rushdie
I for one don't need a supreme sacred arbiter in order to be a moral being.
Salman Rushdie
And using that - the birth of a religion, it suggests that you have got two tests. You have the test of weakness. When you're weak, do you compromise, do you bend, do you give in, do you accommodate? And then the test of strength. When you're strong, are you merciful, are you generous, or are you cruel?
Salman Rushdie
Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.
Salman Rushdie
One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.
Salman Rushdie
I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)
Salman Rushdie
Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
Salman Rushdie
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
Salman Rushdie
I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
Salman Rushdie