19 Ruhollah Khomeini Quotes on Politics

Ruhollah Khomeini quotes on politics

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

5. All those against the revolution must disappear and quickly be executed.

6. This regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.

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

10. America is the great Satan, the wounded snake.

11. As long as the Shah's satanic power prevails, not a single true representative of the people can possibly be elected

16. If the Shah is not destroyed, you shall become slaves of pagans. Foreigners shall take your womenfolk; they shall plunder all your natural wealth and put the Muslim community to eternal shame.

18. It was worse than taking poison.

19. Islam is not a dull religion limited to the relation between man and his God, Islam is a political religion. Its politics are mixed up with its other rules and worship, and as the governments have political dimensions, Islam also has other political dimensions.

22. Familiarize the people with the truth of Islam so that the young generation may not think that the men of religion in the mosques of Qum and al-Najaf believe in the separation of church from state, that they study nothing other than menstruation and childbirth and that they have nothing to do with politics.

32. The Iranians want justice, liberty and independence and believe they can achieve them only by the light of Islam and its laws.

35. I am a brother to the people of Iran and regard myself as a servant and soldier of them.

43. Iranian women have a larger part than men in this Movement and Revolution.

60. The day danger to Islam is deemed imminent we must all make sacrifices.

71. Try to enhance morality among this nation. It is by morality that you can preserve your independence and attain to stages of excellence.

99. The Imam throughout his life called America 'the Great Satan'. He believed that all the Muslims' problems were caused by America.

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

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106. I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.

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