Ashraf Dehghani Quotes

Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

I can't really fight.

Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed.

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!

The seed of revolution is repression.

A people that patiently lets itself be trampled, deserves to be trampled and crushed.

When men hold their peace, the stones will cry out.

We are very well-trained soldiers and we are armed. We will start ambushes, bombings, and even suicide bombings. We will not let the Americans rule us in such a humiliating way.

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

You are stronger than we. We have fought you so long as we had rifles and powder; but your weapons are better than ours. Give us our weapons and turn us loose, and we will fight you again. But we are worn out; we have no more heart; we have no provisions, no means to live; your troops are everywhere; our springs and water holes are occupied … by your young men. You have driven us from our last and best stronghold, and we have no more heart. Do with us as may seem good to you, but do not forget that we are men.

If there's something I hate the most, it's feeling helpless, powerless.

Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit , but as a limiting situation which they can transform.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?

Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.

The more hopeless you were, the further away they hid you.

My people are scared of the air around them, they always have an excuse not to fight for freedom.

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.