Azar Nafisi Quote

The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.


Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (ed. Random House, 2003) - ISBN: 9781588360793


The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes....

The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes....

The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes....

The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes....