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Hussein of Jordan Quotes
Hussein of Jordan Quotes
Hussein of Jordan
Royalty
Born:
Nov 14
,
1935
Died:
Feb 7
,
1999
Believe
Great
Life
Peace
People
World
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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.
Hussein of Jordan
Love
Great
Strange
World
Tomorrow
Beauty
Yesterday
Sense
Every
Resort
Once
Ruins
Haunting
Jordan
Empires
Timelessness
Inch
Last
At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again.
Hussein of Jordan
Seventeen
Dream
Would
Never
Knew
Schoolboy
End
Again
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.
Hussein of Jordan
God
Great
Peace
Three
Live
Believe
Monotheistic
Our
Religions
Followers
Abraham
Wishes
His
Camp
Children
Us
Teachings
Belong
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.
Hussein of Jordan
Life
God
You
Struggle
World
Fear
Illusion
Will
No Fear
Live
Those
Visited
Only
True
True Believer
Him
Am
Began
End
Departure
Ordained
Them
Who
Fully
Believer
Among
Present
Cognizant
Here
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.
Hussein of Jordan
Life
Me
Strong
Nation
Mindful
Our
Those
Kingdom
Perceived
Had
He
New
Said
Am
His
Continuous
Link
Legacy
Expected
Same
Grandfather
Who
Chain
Ever
Founder
Served
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.
Hussein of Jordan
Day
Hurt
Enemy
Will
Long
National
Past
Live
Unity
Our
Tries
Until
Judgement
Said
Continue
Repeat
National Unity
In The Past
Whoever
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.
Hussein of Jordan
Democracy
Peace
People
Inspire
Wish
Believe
Others
Our
Only
Generations
Come
Also
Sought
Real
Shield
Legacy
Model
Stability
Region
Might
Create
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.
Hussein of Jordan
Life
Work
Great
Together
Peace
Fear
Free
Three
Living
Monotheistic
Our
Birthplace
Religions
Abraham
Shall
Dawn
Part
New
Continue
Children
Want
Descendants
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.
Hussein of Jordan
Hope
Day
Family
Man
People
World
Will
Gone
Say
Tried
Seek
Come
His
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.
Hussein of Jordan
Peace
Reality
People
Overwhelming
Believe
Security
Never
Majority
Without
Really
Working
Believing
Defending
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.
Hussein of Jordan
War
Enemy
Progress
Financial
Burden
Gun
Men
Nation
National
Nothing
Arch
More
Civilized
Road
Developing
Development
Economy
Blocks
Than
Scourge
Modern
Social
Social Development
Useless
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.
Hussein of Jordan
Work
Service
Myself
Will
Country
Reputation
Rather
Through
Lead
Never
Merely
Make
Am
Than
Task
Popular
Appearances
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.
Hussein of Jordan
Future
Responsibility
Past
Despair
Future Generations
Give
Firm
Generations
Come
Link
Up
Trying
Cannot
Whole
Belief
Keep
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.
Hussein of Jordan
Prevail
Respect
Believe
Respected
Majority
Policy
Opinion
Opposition
Any
Should
Position
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.
Hussein of Jordan
Work
Future
Man
Woman
Equality
Opportunities
Islam
Down
Approach
Intolerable
Muslim
Sexist
Totally
Shape
Open
Idea
Learn
Am
Up
Close
Same
Against
Should
Help
Ridiculous
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.
Hussein of Jordan
Inspire
Will
Example
Own
Aim
State
Our
Destiny
Arab
Borders
Follow
Seek
Seeks
Only
Higher
Jordan
Within
Model
Role
Happier
Them
Brethren
Play
Need
Set
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.
Hussein of Jordan
Peace
Simple
Say
Simple Thing
Dividing
Jordan
Between
Opponents
Israel
Line
Exists
Want
Thing
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.
Hussein of Jordan
Peace
Poverty
Other
Economic
Economic Growth
Between
Dialectic
Mix
Hand
Link
Stability
Cannot
Region
Social
Growth
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.
Hussein of Jordan
Peace
World
Become
East
Would
Solution
Fact
Without
Tragedy
Stable
Just
Middle
Middle East
Used
Palestine
Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.
Hussein of Jordan
Faith
Religion
Sex
Else
Our
Color
Counts
Piety
Does
According
Discriminate
Anything
Anything Else
After all, I think Jerusalem is part of the, of the world's heritage.
Hussein of Jordan
World
Think
Heritage
Part
After
Jerusalem
I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War.
Hussein of Jordan
War
Time
First
Took
Say
Would
Gulf
Gulf War
Never
Like
First Time
Position
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