Philosophical Sayings

432 sayings found from the Contemporary era

Don't be attracted to easy paths because the paths that make your feet bleed are the only way to get ahead in life.

— Saddam Hussein Early 2000s (pamphlet published then, quotes from earlier speeches)
Philosophical

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

— Saddam Hussein Unknown
Philosophical

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

— Saddam Hussein 1979
Philosophical

Don't let he who thinks you despise him get close to you.

— Saddam Hussein Early 2000s (pamphlet published then, quotes from earlier speeches)
Philosophical

If you rule, rule in a fair way, and don't let your heart take part in the ruling, or let a criminal who cannot be rehabilitated escape punishment.

— Saddam Hussein Early 2000s (pamphlet published then, quotes from earlier speeches)
Philosophical

Don't treat your friend and your enemy equally even if you reconcile with the second. That way your enemy doesn't scorn you and your friend doesn't look down on the meaning of friendship and its rights.

— Saddam Hussein Early 2000s (pamphlet published then, quotes from earlier speeches)
Philosophical

Don't provoke a snake unless you have the intention and power to cut off its head.

— Saddam Hussein Early 2000s (pamphlet published then, quotes from earlier speeches)
Philosophical

Keep your eyes on your enemy and be faster than him.

— Saddam Hussein Early 2000s (pamphlet published then, quotes from earlier speeches)
Philosophical

Don’t make decisions in anger or humiliate an enemy after defeating him.

— Saddam Hussein Unknown
Philosophical

Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house.

— Saddam Hussein Unknown
Philosophical

If you want to control the world you need to control the oil. Therefore the destruction of Iraq is a prerequisite to controlling oil.

— Saddam Hussein Unknown
Philosophical

The west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can`t bring down God`s house.

— Saddam Hussein Unknown
Philosophical

I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

— Saddam Hussein 2006
Philosophical

Strike them and strike evil so that evil will be defeated.

— Saddam Hussein 2003
Philosophical

The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man.

— Saddam Hussein 2002 (book published)
Philosophical

Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor.

— Saddam Hussein 2002 (book published)
Philosophical

The United States reaps the thorns that its leaders have planted in the world. These thorns have not only caused the feet and hearts of certain people to bleed, but also caused the eyes of the people to bleed - those people who wept a lot over their …

— Saddam Hussein Unknown
Philosophical

Our children should be taught to beware of everything foreign and not to disclose any state or party secrets to foreigners... for foreigners are eyes for their countries, and some of them are counterrevolutionary instruments [in the hands of imperial…

— Saddam Hussein 1971
Philosophical

The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance, is a basic aim of the Party and the Revolution.

— Saddam Hussein 1979
Philosophical

Isn't the use by America and some Western governments of their fire against others in the world including, or in the forefront of whom are the Arabs and the Muslims, one of the most important reasons of the lack of stability in the world at the prese…

— Saddam Hussein 2001
Philosophical