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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