Salman Rushdie Quotes

We must take our friends as they are.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

I understand those who don't like me.

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

I don't judge my characters.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Love is something in the heart and in the mind, so why would you chastise anyone for that? And this is something that I feel very strongly about.

In this world where we live, some people are going to love you, some people are going to hate you - that's what it is. You cannot try to force everybody to love you, it's not gonna work.

You do not have to agree with me to love me.

I've given up trying to reason with people who despise me.

You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.

Works of love are always to accept and respect others.

Grant people a lifetime of forgiveness before you even meet them.

I don't judge. I'm not God. We're supposed to be less judgmental and accept and be kind and love one another.

Christians should not be hostile, they should not hate, they should not judge, and they should not condemn. But they also must not shy away from real Truth and real Christianity. Just because so many have “itching ears” and “will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions” does not mean Christians should be willing to scratch that itch.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

The truth is I try to take people as I find them.

I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

I could never hate anyone I knew.