In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country.

- Farah Diba

You have to judge everybody on balance, all the positives and all the negatives. In the life of my husband, I think the positives outweigh the negati…

- Farah Diba

I hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problem…

- Farah Diba

Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to beat t…

- Farah Diba

Some Iranian doctors from Europe and America go to Iran and operate for free or teach medical students there. The other day, I met a gentlemen who is…

- Farah Diba

I always want to remain positive. In our long history, Iran has been invaded by so many other countries and despite it all, the Iranian identity has …

- Farah Diba

I remember I went to an exhibition somewhere and one of the artists, an Iranian lady, said, "I wish we had somewhere that our paintings would stay fo…

- Farah Diba

I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their childre…

- Farah Diba

I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.

- Farah Diba