You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.
Quote by Azar Nafisi
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You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.
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Azar Nafisi Quotes
- You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.
- Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.
- This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?
- America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?
- This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?
- Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.
- I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.
- When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.
- Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.
- You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.
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