The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
AKBAR GANJIThey 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.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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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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I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
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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.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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).
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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