Top 41 Khomeini's Quotes
#1. I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
Naguib Mahfouz
#2. The Islamic Revolution of Iran is honourable for it is the cry which has its origin in Ayatollah Khomeini's conscience.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#3. 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
#4. Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression
Mohammad Khatami
#5. Islamic state means a state based on justice and democracy and structured upon Islamic rules and laws.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#6. We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#7. You young people yourselves are capable of performing anything. Our inventors can invent in a high level, Our innovators can innovate in a high level, only if they keep self confidence and believe that we can.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#8. In Islam, democracy is included and people are free in Islam, both in expressing their opinions and their actions, until there is no conspiracy and they don't bring up ideas which would deviate Iranian generation.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#9. 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
#10. We're not afraid of sanctions. We're not afraid of military invasion. What frightens us is the invasion of western immorality.
Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini
#12. The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.
Salman Rushdie
#13. Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#14. The Imam throughout his life called America 'the Great Satan'. He believed that all the Muslims' problems were caused by America.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#15. Those who say that we want nationality, they are standing against Islam ... We have no use for the nationalists. Moslems are useful for us. Islam is against nationality ...
Ruhollah Khomeini
#16. If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#17. With people's revolutionary rage, the king will be ousted and a democratic state, Islamic Republic, will be established.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#18. One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#19. 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
#20. I remain faithful to the ideals of Imam Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution of 1357.
Mehdi Karroubi
#21. It is better for a girl to marry in such a time when she would begin menstruation at her husband's house rather than her father's home. Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#22. The people will not rest until the Pahlavi rule has been swept away and all traces of tyranny have disappeared. As long as the Shah's satanic power prevails, not a single true representative of the people can possibly be elected.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#23. If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#24. In Islam, the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#26. The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#27. It's almost impossible to deal with a crazy man, except that he does have religious beliefs, and the world of Islam will be damaged if a fanatic like him should commit murder in the name of religion against 60 innocent people.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#28. Happy are those who have departed through martyrdom. Unhappy am I that I still survive ... Taking this decision is more deadly than drinking from a poisoned chalice. I submitted myself to Allah's will and took this drink for His satisfaction.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#29. What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?
Ruhollah Khomeini
#30. Either we shake one another's hands in joy at he victory of Islam in the world, or all of us will turn to eternal life, and martyrdom. In both cases, victory and success are hours.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#31. In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#32. After the Shah's departure from Iran, I will not become a president nor accept any other leadership role. Just like before, I limit my activities only to guiding and directing the people.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#33. Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country [i.e. Iran] after the fall of the current system [of the Shah].
Ruhollah Khomeini
#34. In the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#35. In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#36. There is no room for play in Islam ... It is deadly serious about everything.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#37. If a fly gets into the throat of one who is fasting, it is not necessary to pull it out.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#38. Should one permit an infidel to continue in his role as a Corrupter of the Earth, the moral suffering of the infidel will be all the worse. Should one kill the infidel, and this stops him from perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to him.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#39. One should express his viewpoint regarding what he performed in his country and in a vast part of the world with great respect and deep thought.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#40. Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#41. The name of Khomeini will always remain in the new chapter of Iranian history.
Erich Honecker
