Azar Nafisi Quote

The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for people's actual well-being, that dismisses imagination and thought, branding passion for knowledge as irrelevant.

The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books (ed. Penguin, 2014) - ISBN: 9780698170339