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101 Iranian Quotes

One can forgive but one should never forget.

Can forgive Never forget
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Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

Nothing worse Saying goodbye Dying
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We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

Feel sorry Misfortunes Supportable Crossed
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When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Afraid Analysis Reflection Fear paralyzes
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In every religion, you find the same extremists.

Every religion Same extremists
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In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

The cowardice People Dictators Chance
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Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

Culture Education Weapons Fundamentalism
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Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.

Arrived Conclusion Educate oneself
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I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.

Understood Grandmother meant Comfortable Never
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The revolution is like a bicycle. When the wheels don't turn, it falls.
The revolution Bicycle Turn It falls
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Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?

Religion Defending Physical integrity Fashion
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Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea.

Prosperity Two things Tea A meal
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Love is the opposite of good sense.
Love Opposite Good sense
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Life hangs from so slender a thread. Life is but a sigh...

Life hangs Slender Thread
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The key to wisdom is doubt!

Key to Wisdom Doubt
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War always takes you by surprise.
War Takes you Surprise
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The Islamic Republic is proud to be the target of the rage of the world's greatest Satan.

Islamic republic Proud The target The rage
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The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

Human rights Most fundamental Human issues Most sensitive
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It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.

Takes courage Die for A cause Live
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I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.

No longer Believe that Keep silent Mind you
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None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.

Being contaminated World's evils Attitude
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Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

Fairy tale The potential Present limits Fairy tale
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There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?

Little consolation Millions People Unhappier
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I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.

Left alone Sunny path Memory The rain
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With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

With fear The justifications How convincing Self esteem
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Those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.

Who judge All aspects Individual's personality Into account
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We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

To pay The crimes Accused Score
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Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them because we ask ourselves: What about me? What does that say about my life, my pains, my anguish?

People's sorrows Joys Reminding us Our own
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Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power,the ones who had taken it away,become afraid, more protective of their endangered interests, more repressive.

Hope It loss Hopeless regain In power
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Going away isn't going to help as much as you think. The memory stays with you, and the stain. It's not something you slough off once you leave.

Going away Help You think Memory stays
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Our patents' old age shocks us in the same manner that our children's growth to maturity does ,but without the joy.

Old age Shock us Same manner Children's growth
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the dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.

The dearer A book My heart More battered
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Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

Times Can feel An exile Country
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Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

Great work Art Declare pompously A celebration
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All violence is based on blindness, on a lack of reflection and empathy.

All violence On blindness Reflection Empathy
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Incapacity for true dialogue implies an incapacity for tolerance, self-reflection and empathy.

Incapacity True dialogue Tolerance Self reflection
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How do you tell someone she has to learn to love herself and her own body before she can be loved or love?

Tell someone To learn Love Own body
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Those who are close to us, when they die, divide our world.

Are close They die Divide Our world
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The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes.

Worst Crime committed Totalitarian Mind set
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These are people who consciously choose failure in order to preserve their own sense of integrity. They are more elitist than mere snobs, because of their high standards.

Are people Consciously Choose failure To preserve
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I always had a hankering for the security of impossible dreams.

Hankering The security Impossible dreams
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Life in the Islamic Republic was as capricious as the month of April, when short periods of sunshine will suddenly give way to showers and storms.

Life Islamic republic As capricious Short period
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Most people have a way of radiating their potential,not just what they are, but what they could become.

Most people Radiating Their potential Could become
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The world is full of angry, pathological individuals pushing pieces of paper with obscene messages under doors.

The world Angry Pathological individuals Obscene messages
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Education's goal is to impart knowledge, and knowledge is not only heretical, but unpredictable and often uncomfortable.

Education's goal Impart knowledge Heretical Unpredictable
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It is amazing how, when all possibilities seem to be taken away from you, the minutest opening can become a great freedom.

All possibilities Taken away Minutest opening Great freedom
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Many things change with time, but certain basic human traits remain eternal: curiosity and empathy, the urge to know and the urge to connect.

Many things Change Time Human traits
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Love is love, but there are so many ways of articulating it.

Love Many ways Articulating it
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In our case, the law really was blind; in its mistreatment of women, it knew no religion, race or creed.

The law Blind Its mistreatment Women
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Imagination and the journey quest is at the heart of every life well-lived
Imagination Journey quest The heart Every life
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