Famous Quotes

"You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist."

Azar Nafisi on Future

More quotes about Future

• "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

  Winston Churchill on Future

• "Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."

  Oscar Wilde on Future

• "Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

  Steve Jobs on Future

• "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

  Albert Einstein on Future

• "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

  William Shakespeare on Future

More quotes by Azar Nafisi

• "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."

• "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?"

• "You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist."

• "Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent."