Curated Quotations

King Hussein I

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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.” -King Hussein I

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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.” -King Hussein I

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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.” -King Hussein I

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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.” -King Hussein I

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  • “Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.” -King Hussein I

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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.” -King Hussein I

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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.” -King Hussein I

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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.” -King Hussein I

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  • “Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.” -King Hussein I

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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.” -King Hussein I

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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.” -King Hussein I

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