King Hussein I

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

#dotted #empires #every #great #haunting

Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind. ↗

— King Hussein I

#depleted #mind #personality #reduced #stagnant

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes. ↗

— King Hussein I

#destruction #emerge #human #human life #life

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. ↗

— King Hussein I

#day #family #gone #his #hope

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. ↗

— King Hussein I

#day #enemy #hurt #i #in the past

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. ↗

— King Hussein I

#dividing #dividing line #exists #i #israel

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. ↗

— King Hussein I

#appearances #country #i #i am #lead

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

#east #fact #just #middle #middle east

Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith. ↗

— King Hussein I

#anything #color #counts #discriminate #does

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. ↗

— King Hussein I

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