"I no longer believe that we can keep……" — Azar Nafisi
"I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become."
—
Azar Nafisi
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
74 Quotes by Azar Nafisi
Azar Nafisi has 74 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter…
-
Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to…
-
I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal…
-
I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident,…
-
You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.
-
Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.
-
A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that…
-
America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?
-
Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative…
-
For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as…
-
I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for…
-
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its…
See all 74 quotes by Azar Nafisi »
More Articulate Quotes
This quote is filed under Articulate Quotes,
one of 255 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and…
— Mary J. Blige
-
I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I…
— David Bowie
-
I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.
— Christina Aguilera
-
I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount…
— Jo Brand
-
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
— George Chapman
-
As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern…
— John Henrik Clarke
-
It's been a huge joy, this experience of being a mom ... I don't know how to articulate it yet,…
— Claire Danes
-
I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they…
— Marvin Minsky
-
Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me,…
— Dave Barry
-
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.
— Daniel Libeskind
-
Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country…
— Henry Ward Beecher
-
I think the most important issue we have as a people is what we started, and that is to begin…
— Wilma Mankiller
See all 255 Articulate Quotes »