3 Fun Quotes from Ayatollah Khomeini
Khomeini’s retrospective deontological case for the Iran-Iraq War:
[W]e do not repent, nor are we sorry for even a single moment for our performance during the war. Have we forgotten that we fought to fulfill our religious duty and that the result is a marginal issue?
Khomeini on reactionary political thought:
Yes, we are reactionaries, and you are enlightened intellectuals: You intellectuals do not want us to go back 1400 years. You, who want freedom, freedom for everything, the freedom of parties, you who want all the freedoms, you intellectuals: freedom that will corrupt our youth, freedom that will pave the way for the oppressor, freedom that will drag our nation to the bottom.
Khomeini on economics:
Economics is for donkeys.
All quotes from Khomeini’s Wikipedia biography.
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In that case he should have loved economics, because he was an ass.
Harvey Rosen, in his Public Finance textbook, quotes the donkey line. It was fun discussing it with my students. By aligning Khomeini with anti-economics, I implicitly gave respect for economics.