"The crisis besetting America is not just an……" — Azar Nafisi
"The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for people’s actual well-being, that dismisses imagination and thought, branding passion for knowledge as irrelevant."
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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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