• Categories
Location |   Home >> Quotes SMS >> Author Wise Quotes >> Akbar Ganji Quotes
  • Akbar Ganji Quotes   47
  • I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions. The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it. In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire). When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Akbar Ganji Quotes , Islamic Quotes , Rights Quotes
  • Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market. It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Akbar Ganji Quotes , Iran Quotes , People Quotes
  • All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought...it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society. Religion is the private affair of an individual...be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion. When I'm speaking, I'm speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Akbar Ganji Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Expression Quotes
  • Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?Of course, everyone knows that I'm also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Akbar Ganji Quotes , Ideas Quotes , United States Quotes
  • In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters...part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them. We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these. They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Akbar Ganji Quotes , Lying Quotes , Ties Quotes
  • Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him. He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Akbar Ganji Quotes , Clever Quotes , Expectations Quotes
  • It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by, we recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Akbar Ganji Quotes , Justice Quotes , Revolution Quotes
  • If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist...the entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Akbar Ganji Quotes , Men Quotes , Revolution Quotes
  • Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don't have a nationalities problem, we don't have an ethnic problem. It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Akbar Ganji Quotes , Believe Quotes , Iran Quotes
  • There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation. And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it's clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Akbar Ganji Quotes , Expectations Quotes , Revolution Quotes