Islamic Republic Quotes

#1. The Middle East is now filled with death and destruction and that was the aim of Neo-Conservatives who planned this destruction of seven Muslim nations in five years and they are on schedule and the final nation in their sights to destroy is the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Louis Farrakhan

#2. I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.

Azar Nafisi

#3. For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#4. When my turn came, I said I hoped one day to be the dictator of an Islamic republic with nuclear capability; the others appeared shocked, and I was forced to explain that I had been joking.

Mohsin Hamid

#5. With people's revolutionary rage, the king will be ousted and a democratic state, Islamic Republic, will be established.

Ruhollah Khomeini

#6. If the Zionist commit the folly and attack Iran, they will receive a crushing response from the Islamic Republic's armed forces which will lead to their annihilation.

Mohsen Rezaee

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

Ruhollah Khomeini

#8. It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.

Ali Khamenei

#9. Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.

Azar Nafisi

#10. The city of Tehran is a very modern metropolis, and there's an emphasis in the Islamic republic on science and advancement and technology.

Hooman Majd

#11. I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.

Azar Nafisi

#12. Al Qaeda's central political objective is the creation of an Islamic republic, not the progressive realignment of American foreign policy.

Simon Cottee

#13. [I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.

Christopher Hitchens

#14. Life in the Islamic Republic was as capricious as the month of April, when short periods of sunshine will suddenly give way to showers and storms.

Azar Nafisi

#15. Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like.

Christopher Hitchens

#16. The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes.

Ali Khamenei

#17. The Islamic State is dangerous, a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic is even more so.

Tom Cotton

#18. Did you ever dream this could happen to us? He said, No I didn't, but I should have. After we all helped create this mess, we were not doomed to have the Islamic Republic. And in a sense, he was right.

Azar Nafisi

#19. For the first time since 1979, we are talking to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Obama says talking to him is probably pointless, but it's a hell of a relief from Mitch McConnell.

Bill Maher

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

Ruhollah Khomeini

#21. The only country in which it is legal to buy and sell kidneys from living donor/sellers is the Islamic Republic of Iran. Legal markets were permitted there after the need for kidneys spiked during the Iran-Iraq War.

Alvin E. Roth

#22. And so began the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran versus The Great Gatsby

Azar Nafisi

#23. Allowing Islamic Sharia law into the constitutions of the U.S-created Islamic (!) Republic of Afghanistan and Republic of Iraq in 2004 and 2005 was as foolhardy as it would have been to write emperor-worship and Shinto militarism into Japan's 1946 constitution.

Robert Spencer

#24. If you want to do what you want to do, you cannot work. So art is going to be finished, and this is the will of the Islamic republic: to not have any artists or art and close the doors of all the cinemas and music and everything.

Golshifteh Farahani

#25. The U.S. has many vulnerable targets around Iran, and its bases are within the range of the Guards' missiles. We have other capabilities as well, particularly when it comes to the support of Muslims for the Islamic republic.

John C. Stennis

#26. The Islamic Republic is proud to be the target of the rage of the world's greatest Satan.

Ali Khamenei

#27. Turkey is immersed in a profound social and political conflict between secularists, who have been in power since the republic was founded, and an insurgent Islamic-based movement that seeks to increase the role of religion in public life.

Stephen Kinzer

#28. Worrying is betting against yourself.

Terence McKenna

#29. Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#30. We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.

Emil Cioran

#31. I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.

Howard Gossage

#32. The more people who game, the better for everyone.

Warren Spector

#33. Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up.

Amy Waldman

#34. If meditation is going rightly, deep, you will feel transformed throughout the whole day. A subtle contentment will be present every moment. With whatsoever you are doing, you will feel a cool center inside - contentment.

Rajneesh

#35. Allison Winn Scotch is the real deal and The Department of Lost and Found is one you absolutely won't want to miss.

Johanna Edwards

#36. Fear is dangerous. It sparks violence much faster than anger.

Veronica Rossi

#37. When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!

Adolf Hitler

#38. In Lisbon, a street cry gloated over the Spanish defeat: Which ships got home? The ones the English missed. And where are the rest? The waves will tell you. What happened to them? It is said they are lost. Do we know their names? They know them in London. Oh,

Margaret George

#39. Plays have been made of my comics.

Harvey Pekar