King Hussein I Quotes

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• It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot…
• It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from a common source.…
• Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden…
• The dilemma of our age is the combination of unprecedented material progress and systematic spiritual decline. The decline in public and private morality can be…
• God is the one who saved me. He who believes in God, in His cause and His truth is capable of standing up to the…
• Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really…
• The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.
• One of the great challenges you will face is that a part of the world, and some in it, do not have or do not…
• We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others…
• I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life…
• The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot…
• Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.
• I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the…
• It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable…
• Jordan seeks to play only one role, that of a model state. It is our aim to set an example for our Arab brethren, not…
• We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.
• I have found in my experience that expediency, whether it is practical or not, is an unreliable guide for behavior. Human behavior must be guided…
• We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark…
• I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national…
• I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an…

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