Marjane Satrapi Quotes

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• If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.
• In every religion, you find the same extremists.
• Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.
• I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.
• If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it's that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not…
• Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether…
• I really didn't know what to think about the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were very modern and…
• I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.
• Image is an international language.
• I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.
• The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs.
• The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.
• Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.
• I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.
• I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.
• I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask…
• I'm not a religious person at all.
• Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking,…
• I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.
• Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.

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