Yusuf al-Qaradawi Quotes

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

A political society cannot endure without a supreme will somewhere.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

Rulers come and go; governments end and forms of government change; but sovereignty survives.

The Palestinian Authority has no authority.

All empire is no more than power in trust.

There is no king where there is no law.

The people who own the country ought to govern it.

In government it is order that matters.

You need a head of state--with continuity. Sometimes this is more important than political power.

If a great multitude of men should call one of their number King, unless this instituted Prince, appear in greater visible splendor then others, can reward those that obey and please him, and do the contrary to others; his Institution signifies little, even although he chance to have greater corporal or mental faculties, than any other of the number

To rule means to exercise power, and only he who possesses power can exercise it. This direct connection of power and rule forms the fundamental truth of all politics and the key to all history.

We submit ourselves to rulers only if under rules.

Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state..

If the Khalifah implements even one law outside of the divine law, then he will be removed. The courts will face him and he will face capital punishment and he will be removed.

Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.

A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native land. Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask but from my country's will, by day, by night, to ply the task her cup of bliss to fill.

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

Hume's paradox does hold: power is in the hands of the governed. If they refuse to accept it, you're in trouble, no matter how many guns you have.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.