Akbar Ganji Quotes

When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.

Akbar Ganji

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• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Well
  • Lifestyle
  • Urban

• I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Myself
  • Opinions

• I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Family
  • Kids
  • House

• I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

  

  Dana Hill
  • School
  • Kids
  • Today

• When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Art
  • Age
  • Man

• Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Words
  • Nothing
  • Equal

• There is something so fun about scaring yourself.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Something

• I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Believe
  • Truth

• The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Actions

• You fall for who the chemistry is with.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • You
  • Fall
  • Chemistry

• On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • You
  • Find
  • System

• When I was competing, I would run daily 20 kilometers, and in addition to that, I'd put in many hours of fighting and sparring. That's why I was always able to keep the speed in the ring. I would train so hard that sometimes it was not only hard to stand up, but it would also be hard to lay down.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Up
  • Why
  • Fighting

• All that would remain of me would be the raincoat I’d been wearing, rolled on a bench.

  

  Patrick Modiano

• Throughout the Middle Ages the sway of the Church over the moral and spiritual life of the people, her power to inspire and direct their enthusiasms and energies, her chance for molding their conceptions of life, were amazing and unparalleled by any other force.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • People
  • Life
  • Power

• You looked so intense. Whatever you were saying, you seemed to mean it, and it wasn't amusing at all. Started quite a fashion. People keep looking for purpose now. Complicates everything.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Purpose

• No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Destiny

• Self-expression is impossible in relation with other men; their self-expression interferes with it. The greatest heights of self-expression in poetry, music, painting – are achieved by men who are supremely alone.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Music
  • Men
  • Alone

• I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

  

  Bryan Lee O'Malley
  • Thinking
  • Done

• I get tired of hearing people, well-meaning people, talking about African-American kids or Hispanic kids as if they're all the same. Which isn't true. There is a very diverse group of people in both groups in terms of income, objectives in life, aspirations, cultural wants, habits, all the things that make us unique Americans.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • People
  • Life
  • Kids

• I've actually medalled in every single swimming meet except for the Olympics, so that's the goal. I want to get on that podium - I really do. But for me, that's not something I can control... so I will be happy with going out there and swimming a race that I'm proud of.

  

  Alia Atkinson
  • Happy
  • Control
  • Single

• Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.

  

  Albert Pike
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Democracy

• I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

  

  John le Carre
  • Age
  • Democracy
  • Maturity

• When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.

  

  Akbar Ganji
  • Democracy
  • Crisis
  • Harmed