Quote by Salman Rushdie
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. – Salman Rushdie

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Rock and roll music – the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. – Salman Rushdie

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Freedom
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you. – Salman Rushdie

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Society
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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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I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. – Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Religion

People who rely most on God rely least on themselves. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays

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Religion

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder. – Bill Maher

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