Hassan Nasrallah Quotes

Every nation, civilized or primitive, sees its land as its national home, where it wants to be the sole landlord forever. Such a nation will never willingly consent to new landlords or even to partnership.

You may agree or not with Gaddafi's political ideas, but no one has the right to question the existence of Libya as an independent state and member of the United Nations.

It can't be 'occupied territory' if the land is your own.

So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

Israel cannot be a democracy if it occupies land of other people.

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone.

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.

Sovereignty is as necessary as ever.

I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.

The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?

Hungary together with her annexed territories is independent and should be governed and administered according to her own laws and customs and not as other provinces are.

The claims of no people, according to established policy and usage, are respected by any nation, until they are presented in a national capacity.

Sub-national, ethnic or tribal factions cannot expect to undermine the political unit in which they exist while claiming the privileges of a sovereign nation-state.

Just as one wife does not have two husbands so one land does not have two sovereign nations in possession of it.

1st, we ask not to put yokes on our necks that we cannot bear, and don't make us do what is against our religion, and don't ask us to pay poll tax forever and ever as long as there is sun and moon, and don't ask taxes for land which are our rights of the Moro people, including all that grows (is planted) in Jolo and its islands.

Our ancestors have always regarded independence as fundamental to the concept of a nation.

The Japanese will not be opposed to America keeping Okinawa because the Okinowans are not Japanese.

These colonies are, and of right ought to be, individual states.

This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their independent State may not be revoked. It is, moreover, the self-evident right of the Jewish people to be a nation, as all other nations, in its own sovereign State.