British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the enduring impact of imperialism on British society.
Salman Rushdieβs quote reflects on the lingering remnants of imperialism within British society. It suggests that the historical injustices and moral failings associated with imperialism have not been fully addressed or resolved, leaving a lasting 'filth' that affects contemporary social and cultural dynamics. This statement emphasizes the need for acknowledgment and reckoning with the past to understand and improve the present.
In practice
In a discussion about the lingering effects of colonialism on modern societies.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.
Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.
No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.
For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.
If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive.
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