I am not in the business of suppressing books.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of freedom of expression and the value of literature.
Salman Rushdie's quote highlights that he does not believe in limiting access to literature or any form of written expression, indicating a strong commitment to the principles of free speech and the open dissemination of ideas. It speaks to the belief that literature serves as a vehicle for critical thinking and cultural exchange, rather than a tool for censorship.
In practice
In a speech at a literary festival promoting freedom of expression.
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.
Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily... thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn't always follow what was going on.
Many problems are so complex that even if we had the money to fix them, we wouldn't know how to do it. Fixing inner-city schools, reducing obesity, creating peace in the Middle East are just a few examples.
It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.
You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.
Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.
If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they are.
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