Qajar Quotes & Sayings

Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny. — R. R. Reno

I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings. — Damon Galgut

In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that's the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer's delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn't be moaning. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You cannot claim to support individuality if you aren't willing to trust other human beings. — Robert Peate

It's hard for me not to have a great deal of compassion for the last Romanov family because, really, I don't know if a politically savvy ruler would have been able to make the situation turn out much differently. — Kathryn Harrison