"There is no room for play in Islam ... It is deadly serious about everything."

--

Source : "Man Of The Year: Portrait of an Ascetic Despot", content.time.com. January 7, 1980.

Ruhollah Khomeini

#Play Quotes #Islam Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.”
“I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.”
“We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.”
“Of course [I'm a feminist]. And everyone I know is a feminist.”
“Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?”
“I used to be someone who would not even tread on an ant. But this is a war for honor and self-defense. A 100 percent elimination policy (by Ankara of the Kurds) has forced me to defense and it has become a glorious defense of a people.”
“There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember, sustaining a pleasurable, long-term marriage takes effort, deliberateness and an intention to learn about one another. In other words, marriage is for grown-ups.”
“Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence.”

You may also like:

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Former President of Iran
Ali al-Sistani
Ali Khamenei
Supreme Leader of Iran
Hassan Rouhani
President of Iran
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Former President of Iran
Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Former Prime Minister of Iran
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Monarch
Saddam Hussein
Former President of Iraq
Salman Rushdie
Novelist