What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Salman Rushdie
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression. - Amit Ray

  2. I quote others only in order the better to express myself. - Michel De Montaigne

  3. There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth. - Toba Beta

  4. When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all worth, ever. You will be something complete unto yourself, present and unique. - Jeff Buckley

  5. When he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth. - Mitch Albom

More Quotes By Salman Rushdie
  1. For a long while I have believed — this is perhaps my version of Sir Darius Xerxes Cama’s belief in a fourth function of outsideness — that in every generation there are a few souls, call them lucky or cursed, who are simply born not...

  2. ‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

  3. He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier to work out what goodness was. This business of worship, of the abnegation of self in the face of the Almighty, was a...

  4. Fury...sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal....drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths

  5. From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

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