Mossadegh Iran Quotes & Sayings

In the new media age, everybody is a historian, or a scientist, or a preacher, or a sage. And if everyone is an expert, then nobody is, and the worst thing you can be in a society where everybody is an expert is, well, an actual expert. — Charles P. Pierce

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right. — Albert Camus

Coming, going, the waterbirds don't leave a trace, don't follow a path. — Dogen

Although individual states have primary responsibility for conducting fair and impartial elections, the FBI becomes involved when paramount federal interests are affected or electoral abuse occurs. — James Comey

If you obsess about the next, you will miss what you need in the now and ultimately, sacrifice the next. — Ken Coleman

Well, did he do it?"
She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him
the proof
and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt. — Michael Connelly

In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons, but the coup was clearly a setback for Iran's political development and it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs. — Madeleine Albright

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot. — Patti Smith

This common and unfortunate fact of the lack of adequate presentation of basic ideas and motivations of almost any mathematical theory is probably due to the binary nature of mathematical perception. Either you have no inkling of an idea, or, once you have understood it, the very idea appears so embarrassingly obvious that you feel reluctant to say it aloud ... — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child. — Nelson Rodrigues

The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953 overthrew the nationalist government of Mossadegh in Iran and brought back the shah. — Edward Said

The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world.
Odd Thomas — Dean Koontz

Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs. — Friedrich Schleiermacher

On Aug. 19, 1953, Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran became the first victim of a C.I.A. coup. Ten months later, on June 27, 1954, President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala became the second. — Stephen Kinzer

A walk?" said Catharine.
"One foot in front of the other," said Newt, "through leaves, over bridges
— Kurt Vonnegut

If the other side is better, no matter how the bridge is dangerous, cross to the other side! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working. — Frank Lloyd Wright