Half Quotes by Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again.

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

He [the King of Morocco] spends half his time asleep and the rest of it buried between the legs of the fairer sex.

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Muslim brothers be damned; they're our greatest enemies. You know yourself that I'm a Muslim, even a fanatical Muslim. But that does nothing to…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

O Cyrus , great King, King of Kings, Achaemenian King, King of the land of Iran. I, the Shahanshah of Iran, offer thee salutations…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

What's happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it's futile to imitate Western democracy. They've ended up exactly where…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on.

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

As far as we are concerned, we are not the toys of any country, including the United States.

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I feel sure…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

When you think I've been wounded by a good five bullets, one in the face, one in the shoulder, one in the head, two…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi