"The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes."
― Salman Rushdie
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Food
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- "What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."
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- "The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you."
More In Food
- "When I was younger I was fat. I was never conscious of it and was content with who I was because I was so loved. My mother never told me to lose weight and my father doted on me, but my agent told me. I tried, but I loved Indian food too much."― Archie Panjabi
- "Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life."― Samuel Alexander
- "Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think."― Holly Near