Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
- Oriana FallaciKhomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
- Oriana FallaciI consider Khomeini`s position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
- Naguib Mahfouz