Quotes by Lebanese authors

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"Among them, there were Muslims, Christians, and Jews living together. But then violent organizations came, bringing with them many large groups of people from various parts of the world to Palestine"

Hassan Nasrallah, Revolutionary

"Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?"

Hassan Nasrallah, Revolutionary

"When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it"

Hassan Nasrallah, Revolutionary

"The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

Saad Hariri

"Justice is revenge"

Saad Hariri, Politician

Rafic Hariri

"And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader"

Rafic Hariri, Statesman

"We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death"

Michel Aoun, Soldier

Saad Hariri

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

Saad Hariri, Politician

Camille Chamoun

"The free world is really helping Lebanon restore its sovereignty. I imagine there is quite a bit of pressure on Syria to leave. I hope they leave in a peaceful way"

Camille Chamoun, Leader

Rafic Hariri

"I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head"

Rafic Hariri, Statesman

"There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

Rafic Hariri

"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"

Rafic Hariri, Statesman

Rafic Hariri

"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"

Rafic Hariri, Statesman

"There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

Rafic Hariri

"You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree"

Rafic Hariri, Statesman

Rafic 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"

Rafic Hariri, Statesman

Rafic 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"

Rafic Hariri, Statesman

Rafic 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"

Rafic Hariri, Statesman

"We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

Rafic Hariri

"We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all"

Rafic Hariri, Statesman

"We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"No one can live under degradation"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country"

Emile Lahud, Statesman

"Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"How dangerous emperors are when they go mad"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation"

Emile Lahud, Statesman

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