Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quotes

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Call someone your lord and he'll sell you in the slave market.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness.

You let men in power assume power for the Little Man. But you yourself remain silent. You give men in power or impotent people with evil intentions the power to represent you. Only too late do you realize that again and again you are being defrauded

It is necessary to be very intelligent in the work of oppression.

I hated how Sam Rothstein got manipulated by Sharon Stone's character in 'Casino.' I mean, I just hate how he gets manipulated; that just gets ridiculous to me. I know it's historic, but I hated that.

People who are divided are easier to control.

Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

Why do you all push us around?

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that's how they want you.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

What are your masses [of humanity] but mud to be ground underfoot, fuel to be burned for those who deserve it?

Nothing overshadows truth so completely as authority.

Powerlessness also corrupts.

Whenever there are enclosing walls, there are abuses behind them.

I resent any secret plan that I'm not a part of.