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President: I hope one day all arms convert to pens
1390/02/14-08:30
President Ahmadinejad was speaking Tuesday to an inaugural ceremony for the 24th edition of the landmark cultural event at Imam Khomeini Mosalla (grand mosque) north of the capital.
The president thanked all those who gave a hand in the staging of the large event and said the book fair must be more burgeoning and richer with each passing edition.
The IRI chief executive pointed to a gigantic welcome people from different walks of life accord every year to the book fair and said facilities and spaces must be so sufficient in the next editions that any publisher or author could find some room within the fair. He then instructed his minister of culture and Islamic guidance to supply the conditions so that any applicant could find a stand within the fairground to represent his or her works.
President Ahmadinejad said Tehran and Iran at present bears the standard of intellect and calls human to thought and motion towards human apexes and for the same reason, "rather than a financially-oriented book fair, we are more in need of an exhibition of books."
The president said human being is an infinite being with unlimited prospects for moral and intellectual advance, adding that human without intellect could not be distinguished from other beings and that the intellect runs more graciously that offers human a springboard upward for more sublime horizons.
President Ahmadinejad reckoned that the secret to survival and influence of an intellect lies in how it could interact with other thoughts and for the same reason, the book fair shines as an enormous human event as it offers an unconstrained market for the exchange of views and thoughts.
He asserted that exchange of views provides the ground for human motion towards perfection and that the scene of exchange of views was among the most gorgeous scenes in human world.
President Ahmadinejad called books the most auspicious vehicle of thought between individuals, adding that the most sublime cultural heritage of human being was entrusted with books in the course of history and that unlike the emergence of various attractive and serious rivals for book, the paper-bound vehicle of thought still remains the number one in exchanging of thoughts and contacting with spirituality.
He expressed hope that one day human being sets intellectual exchanges as a common ground to the extent that it can only afford the arena of thought for confrontation with its peers. “At such times everyone can savor the true taste of humanity,” the president said.
"If only book fairs and grounds of intellectual exchanges would be expanded instead of numerous other fairs and shows. If only governments, conspirers and anti-human powers worldwide in particular, would spend a portion of their total $1,200b defensive expenditures in promoting of thought, knowledge and culture," the president wished.
He said those who cherish to be helping establish peace through warfare are the biggest liars of history. "If a portion of what they spend in military invasion and deployment of armies was spent in expansion of thought and knowledge, indeed no room would have remained there for conflict and confrontation worldwide," the IRI president said.
