"Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain……" — Azar Nafisi
"Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent."
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74 Quotes by Azar Nafisi
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Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter…
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Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to…
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I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal…
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I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident,…
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You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.
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Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.
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A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that…
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America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?
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Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative…
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For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as…
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I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for…
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I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its…
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In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called…
— Noam Chomsky
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We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity.
— Mike Newlin
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And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression,…
— Unknown Author
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In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard…
— Adolf Hitler
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In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we…
— Mark Twain
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Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The Jews invented the legend of the Nazi atrocities... Anyone who reads the Koran and the holy writings of the…
— Hassan Nasrallah
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Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity…
— Auberon Waugh
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... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human…
— Unknown Author
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Breaking new factual ground is not what Zeitgeist is about, however. Rather, the video is a powerful and fast-acting dose…
— Unknown Author
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