Salman Rushdie Quotes

I want people to be able to give their voice.

Ink is the transcript of thought.

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.

Words are the small change of thought.

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent.

People are going to say what they want to say.

You can't take back an act you were able to think.

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

By words the mind is winged.

Roz, what think??

Every idea is an incitement.

People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

I am against censorship. I don't think there is anything more stupid than censorship.

We all have the right to comment about each other.

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.

The theater is the place where people create ideas and send messages out, and you learn, and I think it's a fair venue for disagreement and enlightenment.

You may dislike what somebody else has said; that is perfectly valid. You may not agree with what somebody else has said. But saying something cannot possibly amount to sedition.

Style matters, but the real force of writing is ideas, not style.

People that want to talk can talk. Even a parrot talks. People are always going to have their thoughts on what they're going to say.

It is not undemocratic to express one's difference of opinion.

Radio affords you the opportunity to pontificate and elaborate extensively.

I would never say don't have an argument.