Ruhollah Khomeini Quotes

There is no room for play in Islam … It is deadly serious about everything.

This regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.

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

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

All those against the revolution must disappear and quickly be executed.

We have sacrificed much blood and many martyrs. Islam has sacrificed blood and martyrs.

These people are trying to bring back the regime of the late Shah or another regime. I will strike with my fists at the mouths of this government. From now on it is I who will name the government.

Variant: I shall kick their teeth in. I am appointing the government. I am appointing the government by the support of this nation!

At the start of their mission, the prophets first confronted the upper class; Hadrat Moses, confronted the Pharaoh. The upper class enjoys the priority of being confronted and guided first.

if you hope at this juncture to cut the Gordian knots of socialism and communism by appealing to the center of Western capitalism, you will, far from remedying any of the ills of your society, commit a mistake which those to come will have to erase. For if Marxism has come to a deadlock in its social and economic policies, capitalism has also bogged down.

(Addressed to religious leaders of Christianity:) To please the Lord and carry out the decrees of the Holy Christ, let the bells in your churches peal out in favor of the oppressed Iranians, and in condemnation of the oppressors.

Tahrīr al-Wasīla vol. 1

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

In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen.

Support Guardianship of the Jurist and no harm will come to your country.