"I have found in my experience that expediency,……" — King Hussein I
"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 by a higher principle. Practicality has its place but only within a framework of values, which all men of good will share."
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King Hussein I
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37 Quotes by King Hussein I
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It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I…
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It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they…
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Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development…
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The dilemma of our age is the combination of unprecedented material progress and systematic spiritual decline. The decline in public…
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God is the one who saved me. He who believes in God, in His cause and His truth is capable…
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Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in…
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The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate…
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One of the great challenges you will face is that a part of the world, and some in it, do…
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We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model'…
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I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me…
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The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic.…
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Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.
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