Salman Rushdie Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim.[...] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I have never in my adult life affirmed any belief, and what one has not affirmed one can not be said to have apostasized from. The Islam I know states clearly that 'there can be no coercion in matters of religion'. The many Muslims I respect would be horrified by the idea that they belong to their faith purely by virtue of birth, and that a person who freely chose not to be a Muslim could therefore be put to death.

  Salman Rushdie

  Ideas, Religion, Islam

• Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

  Salman Rushdie

  Opposites, Doubt, Finals

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

• Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.

  Salman Rushdie

  Belief, Blasphemy

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

• When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things as miracles, but if there were and so tomorrow we woke up to find no more believers on earth, no more devout Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, why then, sure the beauty of the stories would be a thing we could focus on because they wouldn't be dangerous any more, they would become capable of compelling the only belief that leads to truth, that is, the willing, disbelieving of the reader in a well-told tale.

  Salman Rushdie

  Christian, Believe, Focus

• I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religious, People, Belief

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

• The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and belief. So if this is a novel about migration it must be that act of putting in question. It must perform the crisis it describes.

  Salman Rushdie

  Identity, Migration, Groups

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