Quotes by Hussein Of Jordan - Page 1

Sometimes, leaders' failures can cost these young people's lives.
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Cost
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Jordan has a very important part in any Arab-Israeli peace process.
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Jordan
Important Part
Peace Process
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After all, I think Jerusalem is part of the, of the world's heritage.
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Heritage
Jerusalem
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Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.
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Stagnant
Deformed
Depleted
Reduced
Thoughts
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At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again.
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Seventeen
Schoolboy
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I'm proud of what I've done in Jordan, but the region itself is sitting on a time bomb.
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Jordan
Time Bomb
Bomb
Region
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I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War.
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Gulf War
War Time First Time
Gulf
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Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.
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Color
Piety
Sex
According
Anything Else
Counts
Discriminate
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Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.
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Ashes
Destruction
Human Life
Protect
Life Real Human
Emerge
Result
Victories
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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.
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Majority
Opinion
Policy
Position
Prevail
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We oppose occupation of land by force and we believe in dialogue as the method for regaining Arab rights. This is the spirit of the Great Arab Revolt.
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Dialogue
Method
Occupation
Revolt
Arab
Oppose
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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.
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Absence
Suppression
Acts
Condition
Exploit
Extremists
Innocents
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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 opponents of peace.
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Dividing
Jordan
Opponents
Exists
Simple Thing
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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 does not dispel fear.
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Dark
Glory
Honest
Past
Past Mistakes
Reality
Should
Singing
Adult
Face
Mistakes
Does
Boasting
Dispel
Face Reality
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We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.
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Generations
Papers
Threatening
Contract
Promising
Signed
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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 peace in the Middle East.
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East
Middle East
Palestine
Stable
Tragedy
Solution
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Under the auspices of peace, our comprehensive renaissance will be built, and it will be a model for those who wish to emulate it in the greater Arab homeland.
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Built
Comprehensive
Emulate
Greater
Homeland
Renaissance
Wish
Arab
Model
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I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.
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Reputation
Work Myself I Am
Appearances
Merely
Popular
Service
Task
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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 unity is my enemy until the day of judgement.
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Enemy
Hurt
Judgement
National Unity
Unity
In The Past
Repeat
Tries
Whoever
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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 be a reality.
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Majority
Overwhelming
Believing
Defending
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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 mix in one region.
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Economic Growth
Growth
Poverty
Stability
Dialectic
Link
Mix
Region
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All what we hope for is that a day will come, when we have all gone, when people will say that this man has tried, and his family tried. This is all there is to seek in this world.
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Seek
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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 despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.
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Belief
Despair
Firm
Generations
Future Generations
Link
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Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.
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Beauty
Empires
Haunting
Jordan
Ruins
Strange
Timelessness
Tomorrow
Yesterday
Once
Beauty Love Great
Inch
Last
Resort
Sense
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God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.
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Agree
Flexible
God Help
Manage
Sole
God Truth Believe
Beliefs
Minds
Prisoners
Souls
Willingly
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Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.
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Clear
Dialogue
Islam
Loud
Principles
Sacred
Terrorist
Tolerance
Acts
Life Religion Heart
Difference
Lie
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It is not enough to tackle the mechanics of terror organizations. We must also tackle the situations that create terrorists. We desperately need to address the frustration, the loss and the despair that drive some to these actions.
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Despair
Frustration
Loss
Terror
Actions
Mechanics
Tackle
Terrorists
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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 one that they need follow but one that will inspire them to seek a higher, happier destiny within their own borders.
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Aim
Borders
Brethren
Example
Higher
Inspire
Jordan
Arab
Model
Happier
Seek
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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 more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.
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Burden
Civilized
Developing
Gun
Scourge
Social Development
Arch
Blocks
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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 individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.
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Enlightened
Firm
Successful Person
Brick
Life People New
Lay
Measured
Stone
Vibrant
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We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham.
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Abraham
Followers
Belong
Camp
Religions
Monotheistic
Teachings
Wishes
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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 in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come.
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Generations
Inspire
Legacy
Stability
Model
Region
Shield
Sought
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I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.
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Equality
Approach
Islam
Sexist
Totally
Close
Intolerable
Muslim
Opportunities
Shape
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For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.
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Abraham
Birthplace
Dawn
Descendants
Three
Together
Life Work Peace
Free
Religions
Monotheistic
Shall
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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 as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain.
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Grandfather
Legacy
Life I Am Me
Chain
Continuous
Life Legacy Me
Founder
Link
Mindful
Perceived
Served
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Fundamentalism as it is called is not confined to the Muslim world. It is something that we have seen in different parts of the world. Let us hope that a dialogue between the followers of the three great monotheistic religions could help in putting an end to this.
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Confined
Dialogue
Followers
Fundamentalism
Muslim World
Hope Great World
Seen
Religions
Different Parts
Let Us
Monotheistic
Muslim
Parts
Putting
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God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built.
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Bases
Lebanese
Palestinian
Soil
Willing
God Peace World
Occupied
Shall
Syrian
Territories
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In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.
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Believer
Cognizant
Departure
Illusion
No Fear
Struggle
True Believer
Life God Fear
Among
Began
Fully
Present
Ordained
Visited
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