Quotes & Sayings About Censorship In Haroun And The Sea Of Stories

Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Did he ever ask you . . . or suggest to you . . . that he might want to pull some kind of dirty trick on Senator Smalls?" "Oh, no, he would never have done that," Fey said. "I mean, he might have tried to pull a dirty trick, but he wouldn't have spoken to me about it. I like Senator Smalls and Robert knew that. The senator and I have common interests. He likes classical piano and he likes Postimpressionist art. If Robert had asked me to do a dirty trick on Senator Smalls, I would have refused and I would have told Senator Smalls. Robert teased me about that. About me being loyal. — John Sandford

The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly. — Joan Chen

Youth wasn't like the skin of a snake that you sloughed off and never saw again but rather a feeling that you tuck away because you think you don't need it any more and it's only when you come across it by accident that you realise just how much fun it really is — Mike Gayle

When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a judge at a high court, of the deep sea diver of the cleaner of sewers, of the organiser of a new industry and a jockey, of the inspector of taxes and the inventor of a life-saving drug, of the jet-pilot or the professor of mathematics, the appeal to 'social justice' does not give us the slightest help in deciding ... — Friedrich August Von Hayek

The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see. — Nelson Mandela

You don't wear responsibility like clothes. You can't take it off and put it on when you feel like. You wear responsibility on the inside, and it isn't that easy to remove. You have to learn how to live with it. — Janet Evanovich

I think I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising ... I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often there is a lot of gray area that can be hard to navigate. — Lorde

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry. — Harriet Martineau

The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human. — Carleton S. Coon