Khomeini Quotes

• Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

  Norman Mailer

  Opportunity, Power Of Words, Frail

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• I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Islamic, Aggravation, Doe

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• The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.

  Salman Rushdie

  Would Be, Reviews, Bad Reviews

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• The Islamic Revolution of Iran is honourable for it is the cry which has its origin in Ayatollah Khomeini's conscience.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Islamic, Iran, Revolution

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• Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression

  Mohammad Khatami

  Tools, Revolution, Oppression

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• Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him. He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.

  Akbar Ganji

  Clever, Expectations, Perspective

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist...the entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.

  Akbar Ganji

  Men, Revolution, Looks

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In art class at school we learned how to draw tanks and soldiers opening fire at [Iranian leader Ayatollah] Khomeini and his beard. They didn't teach us the names of the flowers that grew around us in the city - wild flowers of all kinds and all colors. The math teacher used to whip the kids with his trouser belt. My father was constantly violent toward my mother for the most trivial reasons.

  Hassan Blasim

  Mother, Teacher, Art

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The name of Khomeini will always remain in the new chapter of Iranian history.

  Erich Honecker

  Names, Chapters, Iranian

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• Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Kings, Real, Islamic

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• Since Khomeini's death, the popular appeal of an Islamic state - and of fundamentalism - has surely dimmed. Thinkers still debate and warriors kill, but no country seems prepared to emulate Iran. Perhaps revolutions happen only under majestic leaders, and no one like Khomeini has since appeared.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Country, Islamic, Warrior

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• Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah.

  Alexander Haig

  Iran, Paris, Giving

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• Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed.

  Azar Nafisi

  Struggle, Islam, Colonialism

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• Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Mother, Pregnancy, Abortion

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• They have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality. ... Can you imagine having the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as defense minister, or Mahatma Gandhi as minister of health, education, and welfare The Hindu and Buddhist idea of karma and the Muslim idea of kismet, or fate condemn the poor and the disabled to their suffering. ... It's the will of Allah. These beliefs are nothing but abject fatalism, and they would devastate the social gains this nation has made if they were ever put into practice.

  Pat Robertson

  Karma, Country, Buddhist

  "The new world order". Book by Pat Robertson, 1991.

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• The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  World, Demise, Lovers

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• I remain faithful to the ideals of Imam Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution of 1357.

  Mehdi Karroubi

  Islamic, Faithful, Revolution

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• The leaders of the Pahlavi regime, in an attempt to forestall the rising tide of the Islamic revolutionary movement, were hard at work to cast doubt on the question of the Imam Khomeini's position as a Marja'a (a top religious authority) and in this way, undermine public faith in his academic, political and religious competence.

  Yousef Saanei

  Religious, Islamic, Leader

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