Author: Salman Rushdie

Quotes

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

- Salman Rushdie

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

- Salman Rushdie

Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.

Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.

- Salman Rushdie

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

- Salman Rushdie

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

- Salman Rushdie

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

- Salman Rushdie

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

- Salman Rushdie

This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.

This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.

- Salman Rushdie

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

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

- Salman Rushdie

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