Queen Rania of Jordan Quotes

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Queen Rania of Jordan

Profession : Royalty

Birth : August 31, 1970

If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.

Queen Rania of Jordan

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

Queen Rania of Jordan

In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

Queen Rania of Jordan

When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Being queen is overrated.

Queen Rania of Jordan

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

Queen Rania of Jordan

The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.

Queen Rania of Jordan

At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

Queen Rania of Jordan

I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.

Queen Rania of Jordan

People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality, and for that reason sometimes people are not easily saying what they want to say. They're reluctant to express their opinions, and I kind of find that frustrating because I want to know what people really, really think.

Queen Rania of Jordan

I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.

Queen Rania of Jordan

When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.

Queen Rania of Jordan

To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Queen Rania of Jordan

I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.

Queen Rania of Jordan

I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.

Queen Rania of Jordan