The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
Interpretation
Migration connects people and cultures across the globe.
Salman Rushdie reflects on the profound impact of migration in shaping human connections and the interconnectedness of the world. Through his writings, he emphasizes how migration has played a significant role in weaving together diverse narratives and experiences, highlighting both the challenges and possibilities that arise from such movements.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a speech about the importance of understanding migration in our society.
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.
If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it.
There is nothing permanent except change. Nothing is permanent except change. The only constant is change. Change is the only constant. Change alone is unchanging.
if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.
When we resist change, itβs called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into itβs dynamic quality, thatβs called enlightenment
I'm learning the process of changing things. I'm not really sure where this is going to take me. But I know what I want before my career is over: I want people to remember me as someone other than a guy who just tackled people.
The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, 'We already did. We have made the world new.' The hardest part will be to convince yourself of the possibilities, and hang on.
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