Dabashi Hamid Quotes & Sayings

The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity. — Hamid Dabashi

While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these cultures against their colonial consequences. Islamic, Indian, or African civilizations were invented contrapuntally by Orientalism ... in order to match, balance and thus authenticate 'Western Civilization'. — Hamid Dabashi

I've been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mellow and then the day of the wedding freaking out. — Matthew McConaughey

There is no pride in a masculinst history that deprives half of humanity a pride of place, the dignity of who and what they are. — Hamid Dabashi

Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness — Carlos Drummond De Andrade

'All we can see is the surface. But there's so much more we can't see beneath. I bet it's as big as the world down there, underneath the water. There could be anything down there. Things we can't even imagine. How can we understand anything if we can see so little of it?' — Augusta Li

We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex. — Chuck Klosterman

The end of creation is that all things may return to the Creator and be united with Him. — Emanuel Swedenborg

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement — Hamid Dabashi

That's the truth about people with obsessively organised plans: we're not trying to control everything in our lives. We're trying to block out the things we can't. — Holly Smale

I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can. — Mandy Patinkin