I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
AKBAR GANJIThe difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
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We believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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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.
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What I’m worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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