Mohammad Javad Zarif Quotes

The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from 'reality',than many of the people on whom the label 'psychotic' is affixed

Propaganda analysis can contribute to world peace by exposing those techniques that lead to armed conflict by creating misapprehension of reality.

Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

Never had there been such an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge…. But the obverse is also true. We can have thrust upon us a false picture of reality as distorting as the trick mirrors in a Coney Island funhouse.

Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality

It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.

We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

Reality is always so obstructive.

When you're dreaming, you don't know it's a dream. You might even interpret a dream in your dream - and then wake up and realize it was all a dream. Perhaps a great awakening will reveal this to be a dream as well.

Experience is always larger than language.

Reality is the completion of experience.

It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.

Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.

In this world we live in now, with a 24/7 news cycle, perception can sometimes be more powerful than reality.

Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of trying to force facts to fit our definition of reality instead of vice versa.

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.

I'm rarely wrong but I could be. There might be a third party. I just think that the realization that Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party posed the greatest threat to our future, children, grandchildren, all of that, is going to bring everybody back to reality.

In a social media age, it seems that everyone lives in their own reality and that when you give consideration to Newt Gingrich, he exists in an alternate reality, at some level, where the things he says are so diametrically opposed to the record.

We see only what we have names for.

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.