Islamic Revolution Quotes

• In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Islamic, Government, Iran

  Ruhollah Khomeini's speech on November 9, 1978, as quoted in "The Most Truthful Individual in Recent History" in "Iranshenasi", Volume XIV, No. 4, as translated by Farhad Mafie, Winter 2003.

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• In the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Religious, Islamic, Rights

  Interview for Austrian television in Paris (November 6, 1978), as quoted in "Democracy? I meant theocracy - The most truthful individual in recent history" by Dr. Jalal Matini and Farhad Mafie in "The Iranian", August 5, 2003.

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• In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Islamic, Government, People

  Interview with Human Rights Watch, Paris, November 10, 1978.

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• Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Islamic, Republic, Clothings

  The Guardian (Paris) Interview, November 6, 1978.

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• Is there art that is more beautiful, more divine, and more eternal that the art of martyrdom? A nation with martyrdom knows no captivity. Those who wish to undermine this principle undermines the foundations of our independence and national security . . . The message of the (Islamic) Revolution is global, and is not restricted to a specific place or time . . . Allah willing, Islam will conquer what? It will conquer all the mountain tops of the world.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Beautiful, Art, Islamic

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• The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Islamic, World, Revolution

  "Iran's Ahmadinejad looks to export 'new Islamic revolution'". www.dailystar.com.lb. June 30, 2005.

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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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• It is not far-fetched to draw a line from Operation Ajax through the Shah's repressive regime and the Islamic Revolution to the fireballs that engulfed the World Trade Center in New York.

  Stephen Kinzer

  New York, Islamic, Ajax

  "All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror". Book by Stephen Kinzer, www.nytimes.com. 2003.

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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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