No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either

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.

Welcome back, Jem.

Being a parent is like being a catcher. You gotta handle whatever is thrown your way.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

I was an idiot when I was a kid.

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.

Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

My car is so bad, I hit poles I'm not kidding I hit things all the times, I hit bushes it's really bad.

For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd.