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

- Ruhollah Khomeini

We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.

- Ruhollah Khomeini

One should express his viewpoint regarding what he performed in his country and in a vast part of the world with great respect and deep thought.

- Ruhollah Khomeini

You young people yourselves are capable of performing anything. Our inventors can invent in a high level. Our innovators can innovate in a high level…

- Ruhollah Khomeini

Those who say that we want nationality, they are standing against Islam....We have no use for the nationalists. Moslems are useful for us. Islam is a…

- Ruhollah Khomeini

Islam is politics or it is nothing.

- Ruhollah Khomeini

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

- Ruhollah Khomeini

The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the…

- Ruhollah Khomeini

What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?

- Ruhollah Khomeini