King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Quotes

We consider the issue of Palestine our cause and the first Arab cause, and Palestine is more valuable to us than oil. Oil can be used as a weapon in battle if necessary. The Palestinian people must return to their homeland, even if it costs us all our lives.

The injustice and aggression inflicted on the Palestinian Arab people is unparalleled in history, even in the dark ages. An entire people has been displaced from their land and homeland to replace another people. The Arab States have appealed to the world's conscience for nearly a quarter of a century to realize the right and lift the injustice against them, but our pleas have not been heeded, forcing them to take up arms in defense of their rights, lands and sanctities.

Our youth education is based on three pillars: belief, science and work.

God gave man two ears and one tongue so we could listen twice as much as we talk.

Arm yourselves with science.

Be honey to those who seek your friendship, but deadly poison to those who dare attack you.

Our constitution is the Quran.

Henry Kissinger: My plane ran out of oil so will your majesty order it to get supplied with oil and we are ready to pay at international rates?
King Faisal: And I'm an old man who wishes to pray in Al-Aqsa before I die so will you help me in my wish?

The livers are torn apart, and the wings are torn apart when we hear or see our brothers in religion, in the homeland, and in blood, their sanctities are violated, they are displaced and abused daily, not for something they committed, nor for the aggression they attacked, but for the love of control and aggression and to commit injustice.

If I were not a king, I would be a teacher.

King Faisal: We lived, and our ancestors lived on dates and milk, and we will return to them.

We are not the ones who say, 'We will work, but we are used to God's power to say: We have worked.

You [Kissinger] must have noticed, nothing in this dinner tonight carries foreign mark. The meat on the table comes from locally hunted camels. The delicacies all made on Arab land, from Arab resources. The lamps that give us light tonight, burn on fuel extracted from camel fat. If you dare come here, we would set our wells on fire and wander into the deserts. We, as you see, would survive. What would you do?

Any drop of oil that goes to Israel will make me cut off the oil for you.

I beg of you, brothers, to look upon me as both brother and servant. 'Majesty' is reserved to God alone and 'the throne' is the throne of the Heavens and Earth.