How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
I did not share the enthusiasm of certain politicians for the National Front leader, it was because I had noticed, in the past, some strange contradictions between Mossadeq's declared ends and his actions. Officially he defended nationalist anti-colonialism and was the most intransigent patriot who declared that no concessions or advantages should be granted to foreign powers. He described his… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share
The Shah regarded politics as the province of demagoguery, an art in which only charlatans could excel. He had no time for… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As far as we are concerned, we are not the toys of any country, including the United States. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 in the body, and that the last one stuck in the barrel because the trigger jammed... You have to believe in miracles. I've had so many air disasters, and yet I've always come out unscathed -… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share
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