Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Quotes

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Great political and social changes begin to be possible as soon as men are not afraid to risk their lives.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

a government which goes counter to the will of the nation must be overthrown at once... It is dangerous to drive the people to despair and force them to demand by violence that which they as yet seek only by constitutional means.

Progressive change in this country has never come from above.

The word Revolution, which we Socialists are so often forced to use, has a terrible sound in most people's ears, even when we have explained to them that it does not necessarily mean a change accompanied by riot and all kinds of violence

We will take up the ball of the Revolution where our fathers stopped it and roll it to the final consummation of freedom and independence for the masses.

Revolution, not elections!

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.... Unsuccessful rebellions indeed generally establish the encroachment on the rights of people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governments so mild in their punishment of rebellion so as not to discourage them too much.

If revolution insists upon overturning established order, let other peoples make the tragic experiment. There is no place for it in America.

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection.

You can't change the world through the parliamentary system.

We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.