Queen Rania of Jordan Quotes

A revolution is an idea that has found bayonets.

fueled above all by the resistance of the forces and ideas opposed to it.

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

She watched the sun bleed water out of the icicle. Warm and cold working together to make an icicle. Warm and cold anger working together to make a fury, a fury worthy enough to use as a weapon against the old things that still needed fighting.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water?

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we are at no loss to perceive that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind

If officials are too forceful, people will revolt.

Only force would produce social change.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.

The difference between the revolutionary and the terrorist lies in the reason for which he fights.

Stop the normalisation of political violence against the Right!

My father believed in armed struggle.

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.

If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a man's reason and betray him against himself. Civilized men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines.

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people. I know this, I see it printed in the night sky that I, eclectic dissembler of doctrine and psychoanalyst of dogma, howling like one possessed, will assault the barricades or the trenches , will take my bloodstained weapon, and consumed with fury, slaughter any enemy who falls into my hands.

A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, “I’m going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.” No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing “We Shall Overcome”? Just tell me. You don’t do that in a revolution. You don’t do any singing; you’re too busy swinging.

A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.