Salman Rushdie Quotes

If we do not speak with our own opinion, we prevaricate with God and our conscience.

When it was not very comfortable, politically, for me, I said things which lots of people didn't like, some of them may have liked. I said my beliefs, my truth, and my convictions, and that's how I am going to continue to do in the future.

I will never say something I don't agree with or believe in... even if the reward is massive!

Speak nothing but the truth, and you'll soon be considered dangerous.

I think I'd rather tell the truth and say what I believe in and make people unhappy than sort of pretend to think something else to accommodate them and try to be liked. That's just the way it goes and I don't think I'm any great champion of anything, but if they're going to put me on a show, I'm going to say what I think.

I really respect anybody who stands by their truth.

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.

I always say the same thing - believe in what you do, do it, and don't veer away from the truth of it.

I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

I'm going to be as sincere as I can in delivering the message I think is right. If people agree, great, and if they don't, I did my best.

We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.

America needs some honest men who dare to say what they think, not what they think people want them to think.

Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.

It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to do so, is quite enough obstacle to the progress of mankind in that most valuable of all qualities, honesty of word or of deed

Tell the truth and run.