Quotes About Iranian Revolution

#1. The Iranian revolution of 1906 gave Zoroastrians a seat in the country's parliament.

Gerard Russell

#2. The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

Salman Rushdie

#3. One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.

James Buchan

#4. In 1979, Dubai had learned a valuable lesson from the Iranian Revolution and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: trouble has its bright side.

Misha Glenny

#5. They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned.

Marjane Satrapi

#6. If you start studying history closer, you'll find that most all wars are based on false flag operations to get people - to convince the people that they're under attack in some way so that they will support the wars.

Jesse Ventura

#7. Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take.

Alan Joshua

#8. The most important thing any woman can do is promote her inner well-being

Donna Karan

#9. Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.

Lady Gaga

#10. The elevator turned out to be slower than the damned train at Disney World. And it played "The Girl from Ipanema" in Muzak. I looked at Paris and saw that he was mouthing the lyrics. That was it. I'd have to plan an intervention for him once we got home.

Leslie Langtry

#11. We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.

Penn Jillette

#12. She was a woman with red hair and green eyes - the traits which Satan supposedly relished most in mortal females.

Robert Shea

#13. We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.

Barack Obama

#14. It [Iranian Islamic Revolution] is perhaps the first great insurrection against global systems, the form of revolt that is the most modern and the most insane.

Michel Foucault

#15. The river wears away the rock to get to the ocean ... so it is with the soul in search of its creator.

L.G. Space

#16. We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.

Jack Reed

#17. The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.

Earle Birney