« All Keep Silent Quotes
·
Azar Nafisi's Page
Keep Silent Quotes by Azar Nafisi
1 Keep Silent quote by Azar Nafisi
More 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 their world…
-
Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others problems…
-
I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I…
-
I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan…
-
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 moral issue.
-
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 traditions, and…
-
For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of…
-
I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years…
-
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I…
See all 74 quotes by Azar Nafisi »
More Keep Silent Quotes
Popular Keep Silent quotes from across the collection:
-
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while…
— Jean de la Bruyere
-
The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness;…
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
-
Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.
— Unknown Author
-
Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not…
— Pope John XXIII
-
One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.
— Unknown Author
-
As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.
— Albert Camus
-
Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness
— Rumi
-
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it…
— Ayn Rand
-
People have become afraid of love because in love also, death penetrates. If two lovers are sitting side by side in deep…
— Rajneesh
-
Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
— Elias Canetti
-
What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone
— Muriel Rukeyser
-
I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic…
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
See all Keep Silent Quotes »
Browse Azar Nafisi Quotes by Category