"When we live in a world that is……" — Nawal El Saadawi
"When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident."
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52 Quotes by Nawal El Saadawi
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.
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My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.
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You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love?...You're living an illusion. Do you believe the…
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Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives.…
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Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is…
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Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be…
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages. People feel they…
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Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy…
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Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.
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Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more…
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To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.
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More Dissident Quotes
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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has…
— Vaclav Havel
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I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident,…
— Azar Nafisi
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As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky one remarked -- referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot…
— Margaret Thatcher
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It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.
— Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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Dissent is morally neutral. You can correctly call yourself a dissident because you like to kick puppies, but at the…
— Jonah Goldberg
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The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In…
— Christopher Hitchens
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In the last analysis, human security means a child who did not die, a disease that did not spread, an…
— Mahbub ul Haq
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There will always be dissident voices heard in the land, expressing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving…
— John F. Kennedy
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Madonna Kolbenschlag suggest that if an awakened woman forgoes innocence and denial, if she refuses to make compromises with herself…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility.
— Nelson Mandela
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A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy,…
— Robert Sheckley
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I don’t think of myself as a dissident, and I’m more of an immigrant than an exile,
— Ha Jin
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