Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

It's not just about hope and ideas. It's about action.

Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

If you can't eliminate injustice, at least tell everyone about it.

When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

Grace calls us back to nonduality

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

There are times that insistence of demands becomes the stumbling obstacle, that instead of paving way to something smooth for the realisation of some matters which end up in a ditch of rejection.

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

The wise speak only of what they know

If you have one volcano in the world, that one volcano puts out more carbon dioxide than everything man puts out.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

You know, the Super Bowl is so fresh that every single commercial is even on, you know, some next-level entertainment.