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.
There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made. That act is giving.
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
Coincidences are the scars of fate.
I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Do you know who will go first on the Day of Resurrection to the shade of God...Those who when given what is right accept it, when asked for something give freely and who judge in favor of others as they do for themselves."
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