The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
Interpretation
Migration connects people and cultures across the globe.
Salman Rushdie reflects on the profound impact of migration in shaping human connections and the interconnectedness of the world. Through his writings, he emphasizes how migration has played a significant role in weaving together diverse narratives and experiences, highlighting both the challenges and possibilities that arise from such movements.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a speech about the importance of understanding migration in our society.
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.
I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.
If everyone is a changemaker, there's no way a problem can outrun a solution
Welcome all experiences. You never know which one is gong to turn everything on.
Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.
Change your mind about something significant every day.
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