Hariri Quotes & Sayings

We the people have never agreed on much of anything. ... [D]isunity is the through-line in the national plot. Not necessarily as a failing, but as a free people's privileged. — Sarah Vowell

In Lebanon, it's never over for anyone. You cannot write off anyone or anything in this country. — Saad Hariri

All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes — Tom Waits

Justice is revenge. — Saad Hariri

SOVEREIGNTY
Sovereignty is a wind of change.
(Hariri) — Idries Shah

Nobody's going to give you everything on a silver tray. It's going to be difficult. — Saad Hariri

It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away. — Saad Hariri

Lebanon is the only country where media kills more than bombs, injures more than guns ... and at last they say freedom of speech ... — Hussein S. Hariri

I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure. — Saad Hariri

I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head. — Rafik Hariri

The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don't have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region. — Saad Hariri

The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision. — Rafik Hariri

Without justice you won't have stability. — Saad Hariri

We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path. — Rafik Hariri

I have popular support. — Saad Hariri

He remains kind, but a feeling nags at me, staying with me long after I leave. And it's this: It doesn't matter what I did to him. He can choose to remain detached, untouched by me. Something I can't do back. — Kerry Cohen

This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded. — George Galloway

We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all. — Rafik Hariri

I have ... submitted the resignation of the government, and I have declared that I will not be a candidate to head the (next) government. — Rafik Hariri

Pondering over your actions is a practical way of helping yourself in the battle against sin. — Sunday Adelaja

Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow. — Saad Hariri

The woman I'd want to meet the most is Nicole Holofcener. I've loved every single film she's done. I think her films are deeply comedic while being deeply disturbing and dark. — Casey Wilson

Jesus is not one of many ways to approach God, nor is He the best of several ways; He is the only way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon. — Saad Hariri

I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues. — Saad Hariri

The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There is a convergence, an anxiety of a common enemy ... which is good. — Walid Jumblatt

Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did. — Rafik Hariri

And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader. — Rafik Hariri

Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils. — Iain McGilchrist

The Arab and Islamic nation has lost a great man and one of its fearless men who dedicated his life to the service of the people of this nation and their aspirations. — Saad Hariri

On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace. — Rafik Hariri

Great, so my problem is I'm too fat for this century, and too stupid to make a time machine. — J.L.M. Visada

Passion without knowledge and the desire to learn is foolishness — Abdulrahman Hariri

Unbidden, a memory stirred in the back of Aeduan's mind. Another child, another basket, another lifetime, and a monk named Evrane, who had saved him from it all.
Evrane's mistake. She should have left Aeduan behind. — Susan Dennard

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative. — Jock Sturges

Your good spirit moved over the waters. But he was not upheld by them as though he rested upon them, for when he is said to rest upon a man, it is he who gives that man rest in himself. It was your incorruptible and immutable will, which is sufficient in itself and to itself, that moved over the life which you had created. To that life living and living in happiness are not one and the same, because it lives even in its state of fluidity and darkness. To gain happiness it must still be turned from that state towards God, its Creator. It must live ever closer to the Fountain of life. In his light it must see the light; in him it must be given perfection, splendor, and bliss. — Augustine Of Hippo

We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens. — Rafik Hariri

If you don't feel the pain with others, you wont know the meaning of sharing happiness ... — Hussein S. Hariri

Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you. — Chuck Palahniuk

After tonight, Safiya fon Hasstrel would be free. — Susan Dennard

What does a car bomb say about poverty, or the execution of a rural mayor explain about disenfranchisement? ...
The war had become, it it wasn't from the beginning, an indecipherable text. — Daniel Alarcon

You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree. — Rafik Hariri

Hariri says, in his Maqamat: 'Safety is on the river's BANK. — Idries Shah

If people are watching television by themselves, it makes them part of a community of people laughing. — Barbara Feldon