For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I feel sure the country is guided by some hidden force; an organization working in secrecy, powerful enough to dispose of the Kennedys and of anyone else who gets in its way.
--Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran)
Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegration of Western societies will occur much sooner than you think under the hammer blows of fascism and communism. Freedom is not something that does not have a breaking point, and your enemies would like you to reach that point.
--Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran)
How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavor to destroy.
--Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran)
Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.
--Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran)
Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on.
--Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran)
Soviet propaganda is remarkably effective and the Americans are even more remarkably stupid.
--Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran)
The world petroleum story is one of the most inhuman known to man: in it, elementary moral and social principles are jeered at.
--Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran)
Today the name of America has a magic meaning for the most distant commmunities of the world.
--Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran)
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