Quote by Salman Rushdie
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it c

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

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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. – Salman Rushdie

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Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other. – Ernestine Rose

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I begin to feel like most Americans dont understand the First Amendment, dont understand the idea of freedom of speech, and dont understand that its the responsibility of the citizen to speak out. – Roger Ebert

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I dont look so closely at womens fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves. – Tadao Ando

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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. – Abbie Hoffman

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