Daily Inspiration Quote by Rafic Hariri

“Go all the way” lands like a dare, and Hariri repeats it on purpose: once for the investigator, once for the state. The phrasing is plain, almost prosecutorial, but the politics underneath are anything but. By hitching Lebanon’s will to “Mehlis” (Detlev Mehlis, the UN investigator into Hariri’s assassination), Hariri isn’t simply endorsing due process; he’s outsourcing credibility to an international figure because domestic institutions were too compromised to carry the weight. In a country where power often meant insulation, the line “no matter how high” is a direct challenge to the region’s most durable assumption: impunity is the real constitution.

The intent is twofold. Publicly, it’s a reassurance to a shaken public that the arrests are not symbolic theater. Privately, it’s a warning shot to entrenched networks that treated Lebanon as an annex of larger security states. Hariri frames justice as inevitability rather than vengeance, using the language of consequences instead of revenge to claim the moral high ground and keep sectarian backlash at bay. That’s strategic: in Lebanon, an accusation can become a communal injury in minutes.

Context makes the statement combustible. Hariri’s assassination triggered the Cedar Revolution and Syrian troop withdrawal, turning a murder inquiry into a referendum on sovereignty. So the quote functions as both legal promise and political choreography: it elevates the investigation into a national boundary line. If the “perpetrators” are truly “high,” naming consequences is a way of naming a new Lebanon into existence - one that dares to believe power can be prosecuted.