"Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not……" — Azar Nafisi
"Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past."
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Azar Nafisi
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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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Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
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Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes…
— Gregory Bateson
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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would…
— Anne Bronte
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I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried…
— Stokely Carmichael
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When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught…
— Jimmy Carter
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I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and…
— Marie Antoinette
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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become…
— Thomas Aquinas
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No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of…
— Jimmy Carter
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The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.
— John Henry Cox
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Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived…
— Frantz Fanon
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