black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.

Akbar Ganji

There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
AKBAR GANJI

Corruption Distribution Evidence Example Face Kind Marry Money People Teacher
We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
AKBAR GANJI

Demonstration Environmental Kind Movement Organize
It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
AKBAR GANJI

Chornobyl Clear Country Material Something Worried
The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
AKBAR GANJI

Disarmament Nuclear Region United States
Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
AKBAR GANJI

Freedom Idea Invariably Issue Justice Limit Place Revolution Solve
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.
AKBAR GANJI

Country Demand Expectation Incapable Increase Regime Satisfy Society Strata Witness
Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
AKBAR GANJI

Country Mass Province
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).
AKBAR GANJI

Act Affair Cloth Force Individual Islamic Modern Nature Political Private Religion State Wear Women
You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
AKBAR GANJI

Attack Bring Country Democracy
Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
AKBAR GANJI

Change Constant Even Revise Theory
Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
AKBAR GANJI

Institution Religion Separate State
The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
AKBAR GANJI

Development Distraught Lower Political Problem Society Solution Solve Strata
The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
AKBAR GANJI

Advancement Contribute Democracy Exist Infrastructure Juman Modern Right World
[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
AKBAR GANJI

Accomplish Expect General Revolution Revolutionary
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?
AKBAR GANJI

Actual Country Investigate Last Outside Prison Six Space Spent Work Year
There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
AKBAR GANJI

Act Country Defiance Each Possible Such

The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Akbar Ganji Quotes