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

We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

Islamic state means a state based on justice and democracy and structured upon Islamic rules and laws.

Islam is politics or it is nothing.

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.

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

If a fly gets into the throat of one who is fasting, it is not necessary to pull it out.

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

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.

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 ours.

No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

There's a small choice in rotten apples.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.

She who seeks shall find, find all to well, and end up clouding her vision with her own preconceptions.

In a shared fish, there are no bones.

You've got major artists releasing albums on their own and eschewing the major system. I think that breeds excitement and creativity.

An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty... A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous.