Salman Rushdie Quotes About Revolution

Quotes about: Revolution

• Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Air, Vision

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

• The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.

  Salman Rushdie

  Class, Progress, History Of Life

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

• The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

  Salman Rushdie

  Government, West, Revolution

  "Salman Rushdie: the fatwa, Islamic fundamentalism and Joseph Anton". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2012.

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