Quotes About Islamic Revolution

#1. The Islamic Revolution, as it turned out, did more damage to Islam by using it as an instrument of oppression than any alien ever could have done.

Azar Nafisi

#2. 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

#3. Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran's nuclear program.

Nancy Gibbs

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

Ruhollah Khomeini

#5. I remain faithful to the ideals of Imam Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution of 1357.

Mehdi Karroubi

#6. The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#7. It is not far-fetched to draw a line from Operation Ajax through the Shah's repressive regime and the Islamic Revolution to the fireballs that engulfed the World Trade Center in New York.

Stephen Kinzer

#8. but it seems like part of your heart can never work if you don't have kids. Like it will always be shut off.

Gillian Flynn

#9. One opens the inner doors of one's heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up without fail and gives itself to all.

Thomas Merton

#10. The Salafists are trying to abort the revolution and make it religious, though the revolution started secular. There was not a single Islamic slogan. It was secular men and women, and in fact, they were unified. Now they want to divide the revolution, and religion is a very strong weapon.

Nawal El Saadawi

#11. A promise should be as binding as a contract.

Frank Sonnenberg

#12. One or two particulars may suggest hints of enquiry, and they do well who take those hints; but if they turn them into conclusions, and make them presently general rules, they are forward indeed, but it is only to impose on themselves by propositions assumed for truths without sufficient warrant.

John Locke

#13. Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.

Horace

#14. Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence?

Susan Howe

#15. There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#16. Harmony is the inlet of God into the mind, so that the mind acts in obedience to a law above mind - and that law is unity.

Ernest Wood

#17. There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. In Tunisia, the so-called Yasmin revolution has led to the installation of a relatively moderate Islamic government. Whether or not that means democracy will, however, only be put to the test if and when the time comes for another election, which the opposition may win.

Martin Van Creveld

#19. Social Security is a widely popular program because the individual has been deceived by the Statist to believe that the government has been prudently and diligently managing his accumulated pension investment in his Social Security account, which he presumes to be funded by his own payroll taxes.

Mark Levin