All SALMAN RUSHDIE Quotes about “Culture”

“Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.”
“The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.”
“There is no alternative to the peaceful coexistence of cultures.”
“I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.”
“My father decided that he was such a admirer of Ibn Rushd's philosophy, thinking that he changed the family name to Rushdie. I realized why my father was so interested in him, because he was really an incredibly modernizing voice inside our Islamic culture.”
“The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.”
“Islam doesn't have to mean blind faith. It can mean what it always meant in your family, a culture, a civilization, as open-minded as your grandfather was, as delightedly disputatious as your father was.... Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word, I urged myself; remember when it meant family.”

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