Collaboration Quote by Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“Different groups in the [Middle East] drew two lessons from [return of the shah in Iran] - one, that Americans were willing to use…

— Bernard Lewis

With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what…

— Christopher Hitchens

Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that he himself…

— Nazanin Boniadi

There was humiliations, cruelty, abuse, violence. And they were all the time trying to put to fight the prisoners one against the other, filling…

— Ingrid Betancourt

Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to…

— Nicolas Chamfort

Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and…

— Thomas Sowell

“Slavery! It sounds archaic and perhaps even silly, and this word, too, people dared pronounce only in their hidden thoughts. “Slavery — it sounds…

— Melānija Vanaga

“The charm offensive was complemented by the work of a number of Islamic intellectuals with strong links to the Egyptian Islamic movement in general…

— Tarek Osman

Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and I at…

— Marjane Satrapi

“One look at the officials in the American Consulate where we went for dreary paper routines was enough to make you realize what was…

— Jack Kerouac

When it comes to how the slaves treat each other: If you've been brutalized all your life - if you have seen your children…

— Colson Whitehead