Quotes by Salman Rushdie

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

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"Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country."

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"I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else."

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"A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument."

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"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep."

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