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 finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.
A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.
The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
I think that any time you get into an area where it requires humility, and accountability, it's gonna get touchy. And so I understand the reality of when someone says something that requires you to look at yourself and change, it's not easy.
We've become a nation of indoor cats, he'd said. A nation of doubters, worriers, overthinkers. Thank God these weren't the kind of Americans who settled this country. They were a different breed! They crossed the country in wagons with wooden wheels! People croaked along the way, and they barely stopped. Back then, you buried your dead and kept moving.
Everything that was interesting was outside of Poland. Great music, art, film, hippies, Mick Jagger. It was impossible even to dream of escape. I was convinced as a teen-ager that I would have to spend the rest of my life in this trap.
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