Create Yours

Top 30 Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quotes (2025 Update)

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on.”

1. “Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.”

2. “Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.”

3. “Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.”

4. “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

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “O Cyrus, great King, King of Kings, Achaemenian King, King of the land of Iran. I, the Shahanshah of Iran, offer thee salutations from myself and from my nation. Rest in peace, for we are awake, and we will always stay awake.”

5. “O Cyrus, great King, King of Kings, Achaemenian King, King of the land of Iran. I, the Shahanshah of Iran, offer thee salutations from myself and from my nation. Rest in peace, for we are awake, and we will always stay awake.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “Soviet propaganda is remarkably effective and the Americans are even more remarkably stupid.”

6. “Soviet propaganda is remarkably effective and the Americans are even more remarkably stupid.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “They want liberalization! I’ll give them liberalization. I’ll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again.”

7. “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

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn’t realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.”

8. “My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn’t realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “Was the collaboration of some slaves any different than the silence of some Iranians who stood by and did nothing as Savak thugs murdered and tortured opponents of the Shah? How could we judge other men until we had stood in their shoes?”

9. “Was the collaboration of some slaves any different than the silence of some Iranians who stood by and did nothing as Savak thugs murdered and tortured opponents of the Shah? How could we judge other men until we had stood in their shoes?”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.”

10. “My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “As far as we are concerned, we are not the toys of any country, including the United States.”

11. “As far as we are concerned, we are not the toys of any country, including the United States.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “There is only one thing I can say about the Shah- he knows how to draw a crowd.”

12. “There is only one thing I can say about the Shah- he knows how to draw a crowd.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “Today the name of America has a magic meaning for the most distant commmunities of the world.”

13. “Today the name of America has a magic meaning for the most distant commmunities of the world.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.”

14. “The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “I have learned by experience that a tragic end awaits anyone who dares cross swords with me; Nasser is no more, John and Robert Kennedy died at the hands of assassins, their brother Edward has been disgraced, Krushchev was toppled, the list is endless.”

15. “I have learned by experience that a tragic end awaits anyone who dares cross swords with me; Nasser is no more, John and Robert Kennedy died at the hands of assassins, their brother Edward has been disgraced, Krushchev was toppled, the list is endless.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “Nobody can influence me, nobody. Still less a woman. Women are important in a man’s life only if they’re beautiful and charming and keep their femininity.”

16. “Nobody can influence me, nobody. Still less a woman. Women are important in a man’s life only if they’re beautiful and charming and keep their femininity.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “We may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab territory.”

17. “We may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab territory.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “Who on earth do the Americans suppose their allies are amongst the Arab world? Even Saudi Arabia they seem to regard as nothing more than a resevoir of oil and money.”

18. “Who on earth do the Americans suppose their allies are amongst the Arab world? Even Saudi Arabia they seem to regard as nothing more than a resevoir of oil and money.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.”

19. “A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “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 they started.”

20. “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 they started.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “I personally object to the veil on aesthetic as well as other grounds; but I must admit that, for instance in the suburbs of American cities, I have often seen women attired more sloppily than our Persian women normally are.”

21. “I personally object to the veil on aesthetic as well as other grounds; but I must admit that, for instance in the suburbs of American cities, I have often seen women attired more sloppily than our Persian women normally are.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “I will frankly confess that I was convinced that God had ordained me to do certain things for the service of my nation, things that perhaps could not be done by anyone else. In whatever I have done and whatever I do in the future, I consider myself as an agent of the will of God.”

22. “I will frankly confess that I was convinced that God had ordained me to do certain things for the service of my nation, things that perhaps could not be done by anyone else. In whatever I have done and whatever I do in the future, I consider myself as an agent of the will of God.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “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 alter my opinion of the Arabs.”

23. “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 alter my opinion of the Arabs.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.”

24. “Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “It would serve the Americans right if we emptied the prisons and let the subversives take power. They’d soon show Washington just how much they appreciate good old American values.”

25. “It would serve the Americans right if we emptied the prisons and let the subversives take power. They’d soon show Washington just how much they appreciate good old American values.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us?”

26. “Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us?”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “As for King Hussein of Jordan, I cannot praise him enough. He is not only a friend, but a brother. His qualities as a man and his goodness of heart are enhanced by great courage and a true love of his country.”

27. “As for King Hussein of Jordan, I cannot praise him enough. He is not only a friend, but a brother. His qualities as a man and his goodness of heart are enhanced by great courage and a true love of his country.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world’s problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength.”

28. “Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world’s problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “Henry Kissinger is possessed of a truly superior intelligence, in addition to which he has two qualities which, unfortunately, many great men lack: he is able to listen and he has a very subtle sense of humour.”

29. “Henry Kissinger is possessed of a truly superior intelligence, in addition to which he has two qualities which, unfortunately, many great men lack: he is able to listen and he has a very subtle sense of humour.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.”

30. “How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.”

31. “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

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quote: “This criticism is ridiculous. The twenty-five hundreth anniversary celebration cost me less than the inauguration of each new president of the United States.”

32. “This criticism is ridiculous. The twenty-five hundreth anniversary celebration cost me less than the inauguration of each new president of the United States.”

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS APPLE

Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

COURAGE MOTIVATIONAL STRENGTH

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

LIFE SPIRITUALITY

Save image...
Permalink
Open in new tab
Copy quote text

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 30 Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quotes.

All the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters, and more.

Thank you!

Please check your email.