#ma

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. ↗

— King Hussein

#boasting #dark #dispel #does #face

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#epoch #fate #happenings #historical #humanity

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

#am #approach #close #down #future

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

#become #beliefs #believe #flexible #god

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 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

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. ↗

— King Hussein I

#cannot #down #enlightened #existence #firm

One on God's side is a majority. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#majority #side

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

#believe #majority #opinion #opposition #policy