Salman Rushdie Quotes

The Islam Ataturk professed contained nothing contrary to reason and progress.

Every generation is more open to new things.

The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.

The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.

The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them.

Will Islam modernize or will it be stuck where it has been for hundreds of years?

We have embraced change - change in the economy, change in the government, and change in the schools…. innovation and change are in our blood

America has believed that in differentiation, not uniformity, lies the path of progress.

I am not afraid of new inventions.

I am not afraid of new inventions or improvements, nor bigoted to the practices of our forefathers. It is that bigotry which keeps the Indians in a state of barbarism in the midst of the arts and would have kept us in the same state even now

Why should we hesitate to toss the old views overboard.

You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.

I'm very proud of the world that's embracing all these different ideas of what it is to be diverse, in 2017.

Diversity makes us better and allows us to grow, which is what I want for WWE.

Clinging to old ways and fighting change is not the answer.

The people that don't want change, the ones that don't see how removing Confederate flag creates so much more opportunities for our sport to grow - they don't want our sport to grow.

I'm always moving forward and trying new things.

The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind.

It's not enough to be tolerant...now we're finally moving towards the idea of acceptance.

When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.

Be willing to move forward and find out what happens next.

Now is the time to move this country forward.