"They told us if they kill all the lions the wildlife will disappear, so now those who become warriors are those with higher education, not those who kill lions."

"I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right."

"When someone takes away your pens you realize quite how important education is."

"With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism."

"Read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism."

"Words are a homeland."

Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.

Anyone who is a Palestinian citizen, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, should decide together in a very free referendum. There is no need for war. There is no need for threats or an atom bomb either.

Anyone who recognizes this regime [Israel] because of the pressure of the World oppressor, or because of naiveté or selfishness, will be eternally disgraced and will burn in the fury of the Islamic nations.

By unleashing an active diplomacy on its nuclear activities, Iran has effectively neutralized the European and US policies,.

Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit.

Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.

Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.

Fortunately, the IAEA has recently tried to regain its legal role, as supporter of the rights of its members, while supervising nuclear activities. We see this as a correct approach adopted by the agency.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.

Violence begins with the fork.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.