An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
Interpretation
The suppression of storytelling is a fundamental assault on what makes us human.
In this quote, Salman Rushdie emphasizes the critical role that storytelling plays in the human experience. He suggests that when our ability to share and hear stories is restricted, it undermines our very essence as beings who communicate, connect, and understand each other through narratives. This goes beyond mere censorship; it challenges the core of our identity and our shared humanity.
In practice
In a speech about freedom of expression, one might say, 'As Salman Rushdie stated, censorship is a crime against our nature as human beings.'
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty.
I'm sure I would still have anxiety even if I got a bunch of surgery, and was the most conventionally attractive, cis-passing woman in the world; I think those are traumas that never go away.
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication.
I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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