More Quotes by 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.
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.
No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
We all owe death a life.
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
