Quote by Salman Rushdie
There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to

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

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I was 21 in 1968, so Im as much a child of the 60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968. – Salman Rushdie

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Religion
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff. – Salman Rushdie

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Society
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes. – Salman Rushdie

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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up. – Henry Louis Gates

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The subject matter is very tricky. Its about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think its a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians. – Daniel Craig

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God cannot alter the past, though historians can. – Samuel Butler, “Prose Observations”

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