42 Imran Khan Quotes

Imran Khan quotes

1. I consider myself completely a practising Muslim. I can't say I've become an angel - I still have my weaknesses - but religion doesn't expect you to become an angel overnight. It shows you the direction in life... You know what is right and what is wrong, you know what is expected of you.

2. If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

3. It's not a defeat that destroys you, it's being demoralised by defeat that destroys you.

4. People still laugh at me in politics, they think I won't make it; but I think I will, after Harold Wilson, I will be your next Chancellor to become Prime Minister.

5. I do not have any fears, no fear of dying, of failure, of anything; that means I am very dangerous for my opponents.

6. A Muslim is a Muslim: the terms extremist and moderate apply only to a man's political views, not to his religious beliefs

7. If you have political reform in the Islamic world, the spiritual reform would follow.

8. And faith for me begins with complete liberation. It liberates you, it drives away your fears - fear of dying, fear of losing your wealth, fear of humiliation - all of that disappears.

9. Without liberty I have nothing left to use except my body.

10. The only negative thing in Pakistan is not having a democracy.

11. When you have democracy, when you allow free debate, you get rid of fanaticism.

12. People tell me 'We agree with what you say and support you!,' but they are never to be found on the field. I need people who will join in our struggle and be found in the middle of it - not sit-at-home activists!

13. I went through a process of self-analysis and realised what I was supposed to do with my life. When you search for it, you find it. Too many people don't stop to search.

14. And when you have democracy and an open society and debate, automatically you will see the real [Islamic] scholars coming up.

1. I was taken off from plane and interrogated by U.S. Immigration in Canada on my views on drones. My stance is known. Drone attacks must stop.

2. Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

3. You all have to make a new Pakistan. Naya Pakistan is not a slogan - it's a belief.

4. Lack of rule of law is the main reason Pakistan could not join the ranks of progressive nations.

5. You don't kill your way to peace.

6. They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

7. People wanted to vote for us but the mechanics of getting the voters to the polling stations we didnt have. We did not have the money most of all .

8. There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

9. In a country where half a million die every year only for drinking polluted water, it is more necessary for us to do something for them.

10. In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

11. Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.

12. One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

13. The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

14. And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.

15. Never give up, no matter how hard life gets no matter how much pain you feel. Pain will eventually subside, nothing remains forever, so keep going and don't give up.

16. But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.

17. I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.

18. It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

19. I have studied Murad Saeed's case myself, He have not submitted any fake degree. Its a conspiracy against him. If he had any fears, if he was guilty he wouldn't have went to court.

20. But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.

21. I think the Americans don't understand that this is a complicated new ball game. People everywhere have seen that a few determined people who were not scared to die can create a huge upheaval within a major superpower.

22. My countrymen, I am wholeheartedly thankful to you today for proving that change isn't coming but it has ALREADY COME!

23. I am basically a private person.

24. When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.

25. I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

26. What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.

27. What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.

28. At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.