41 Quotes by Ruhollah Khomeini

In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.

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.

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.

Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.

Islam is politics or it is nothing.

The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini.

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.

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

If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.