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.
AKBAR GANJIThe most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
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Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
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Let me begin by saying not only you can’t have democracy with $75 million. You can’t even have it with $750 billion.
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