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Bahram Beyzai
21 quotes
“The credulous people of fifty-seven,”
Bahram Beyzai (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not endorse ignorance. I love these people, but not their ignorance. I love the potential within them—the potential that can lead to their awakening”
Bahram Beyzai (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People are like mirrors. A tarnished mirror makes you appear dim; a cracked mirror makes you seem broken; a polished or warped mirror shows you straight or distorted. But that is different from who you truly are”
Bahram Beyzai (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are a people who have forgotten their past and are confused about their present”
Bahram Beyzai (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Iran is not a country that began with Islam, nor one that ended with i”
Bahram Beyzai (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our mythology is not dead — it is merely sleeping, and it sleeps inside us.”
Bahram Beyzai (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I gradually realized that the entire culture of the country had become a form of cultural imitation.”
Bahram Beyzai (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My parents were Baha'is and I grew up in a Baha'i family. But my religion is a culture. My religion is not a religion itself. Religion is a personal belief and it does not belong to anyone in the world.”
Bahram Beyzai (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was born in this country and I have as much right to work and live as you do, and I certainly have more right to cinema than you, who have done nothing but prevent my work. I am a filmmaker, and it is because of my existence and that of other filmmakers that you sit behind that table, in a room from which you treat us like slaves, listening to orders and taking orders?”
Bahram Beyzai (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yes, I too became suspicious like you.”
Bahram Beyzai (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We thought ourselves wise in all things,”
Bahram Beyzai (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are the losers of a world whose foundations were laid before we were born”
Bahram Beyzai (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Have you thought about it? Your opposition makes me appear more frightening than I really am. That's actually useful, because then no one dares challenge me”
Bahram Beyzai (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is the use of the name we attach to ourselves, when behind it we are someone else”
Bahram Beyzai (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They speak of him endlessly; yet those who speak, why are they not like him themselves?”
Bahram Beyzai (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everything we have comes from the King.”
Bahram Beyzai (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whoever you are — king or beggar — you came to our door, and now you are ours to answer for.”
Bahram Beyzai (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An arrow that carries a whole people's life cannot miss”
Bahram Beyzai (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A young falcon longed to fly;”
Bahram Beyzai (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We all die with the antidote already in our hands.”
Bahram Beyzai (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What have I to offer this body but tears?”
Bahram Beyzai (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source