Author Profile
Salman Rushdie
1947 • Indian • Novelist
69
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 69 quotesCertainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.— Salman Rushdie
The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.— Salman Rushdie
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.— Salman Rushdie
In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.— Salman Rushdie
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.— Salman Rushdie
Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.— Salman Rushdie
I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.— Salman Rushdie
I was 21 in 1968, so I'm 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
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.— Salman Rushdie
I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.— Salman Rushdie
I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.— Salman Rushdie
What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.— Salman Rushdie
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.— Salman Rushdie