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

Other quotes by Salman Rushdie

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. – Salman Rushdie

Category:
History
Read Quote

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. – Salman Rushdie

Category:
Future
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
History
category

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. – Theodore Roosevelt

Category:
History

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. – Pope John Paul II

Category:
History

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, theres nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends. – Ani DiFranco

Category:
History

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard. – Barbara Tuchman

Category:
History

Random Quotes

One of the great strengths of the United States is… we have a very large Christian population – we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values. – Barack Obama

Category:
great

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. – Nicolas Chamfort

Category:
Self-Discovery

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings – by classmates, not the nuns – was to be the funny guy. – George A. Romero

Category:
funny

I am Jose Mourinho and I dont change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects. – Jose Mourinho

Category:
Change