The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or...
Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.
Did you know, ji,’ Zulu offered, ‘that the map of Tolkien’s Middle earth fits quite well over central England and Wales? Maybe all fairylands are right here, in our midst.
Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name.The problem’s name is God.
The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.
Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and...
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
Also, on account of the odd relationship between time and space, the people who do manage to time-jump sometimes space-jump at the same time and end up in places where they simply don't belong. Over t...
We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral...
Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying
When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.
This is how we are: we fall in love with each other’s strengths, but love deepens towards permanence when we fall in love with each other’s weaknesses.
And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceless enemies, finds his tongue cleaving dryly to the roof of his mouth, where even the sons of the hous...
Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
The life of this alien city was lived under the cathedral dome of the sky. People ate where the birds could share their food and gambled where any cutpurse could steal their winnings, they kissed in f...
Realism can break a writer's heart.