Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quotes
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My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
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O Cyrus , great King, King of Kings, Achaemenian King, King of the land of Iran. I, the Shahanshah of Iran, offer thee salutations from myself and from my nation. Rest in peace, for we are awake, and we will always stay awake.
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How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.
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I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead of the United States.
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Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on.
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Nixon has the audacity to tell me to do nothing in the interest of my country until he dictactes where that interest lies. At the same time he threatens me that failure to follow his so-called advice will be to jeopardize the special relations between our two countries. I say to hell with such special relations.
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Nobody can influence me, nobody. Still less a woman. Women are important in a man's life only if they're beautiful and charming and keep their femininity.
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To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.
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Soviet propaganda is remarkably effective and the Americans are even more remarkably stupid.
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Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegration of Western societies will occur much sooner than you think under the hammer blows of fascism and communism. Freedom is not something that does not have a breaking point, and your enemies would like you to reach that point.
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A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.
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The Saudis have never shown any respect for human rights, either now or in the past. Even a petty burglar faces having one of his hands chopped off. The liberal press in America prefers to ignore all this, although they don't hesitate to blacken the reputation of Iran.
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My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.
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Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.
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The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.
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The Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity.
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Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us?
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As far as we are concerned, we are not the toys of any country, including the United States.
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You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.
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Who on earth do the Americans suppose their allies are amongst the Arab world? Even Saudi Arabia they seem to regard as nothing more than a resevoir of oil and money.