Quotes by Hezbollah Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah
"We refuse the division and the death of Lebanon; we want Lebanon to remain strong and united. Long live united Lebanon."
"As long as there is Israeli military movement, Israeli field aggression and Israeli soldiers occupying our land, it is our natural right to fight them and defend our lands, our homes, and ourselves."
"The country will be lost if it loses dialogue and accord; and if the country is lost, all of us will be lost."
"To attack someone, you need to suppose that he exists. But if you feel that he does not exist in the first place, then you would be troubling yourself to no avail if you attack him."
"Once, we used to ask the international community to condemn the executioner and to ask for mercy for the victim. We reached a stage where we began to say we accept that they condemn both the executioner and the victim."
"They do not want to destroy the resistance of Hezbollah in Lebanon; they want to destroy any spirit of resistance in Lebanon, whether within Hezbollah or any other party. They want to push the country to the point where words such as resistance would become unacceptable, and where words such as martyr, jihad, wounded, steadfastness, confrontation, liberation, freedom, glory, dignity, pride, and honour are unacceptable ."
"I argued with them and I told them that you have known us for 23 years or 24 years. I was ready to tell them, some of them and not all of them, what battles they fought in the interest of foreign parties and not in the interest of Lebanon. I asked them to bring anything against Hezbollah and say if it did anything in Lebanon or fought any war in Lebanon that was in the interest of another party, and not in the interest of Lebanon. They could not give me a single example."
"I can claim that Hezbollah is the biggest popular current in Lebanon. But, tell us when did we take advantage of this political, military, mass, and popular force in Lebanon for our own interest, for our own party interest, or for the interest of our sect, considering the sectarian structure of the country? Never!"
"Today, our sons, families, relatives, and dear ones are in the battlefield. […] Are we that crazy, that I and my brothers want to sacrifice our souls, our families, our honourable masses, and our dear ones in order to have Syria return to Lebanon, or to postpone the international tribunal, or for the sake of the Iranian nuclear file. Can you imagine such statements! This is an insult. It is an insult to our patriotism and commitment."
"The victory we are talking about is that when the resistance survives. When its will is not broken then this is victory. When Lebanon is not humiliated and its dignity and honour are maintained, and when Lebanon stands fast alone in front of the fiercest military power and does not accept any humiliating conditions regarding a settlement of the issue, then this is victory."
"They are trying to play on the sectarian divisions. They know that playing on the sectarian divisions is dangerous. It is true that it threatens the resistance, but it also threatens the state project, the Cedar Revolution, and the great democratic model George Bush is talking about. It is worth mentioning that democracy in Lebanon is older than the whole Bush family."
"We did not want this war, but we are fighting it because it was imposed on us."
"This will urge America, the West, and the Gulf states to bring their piled money to Lebanon because they would say to the people that if we leave only Hezbollah to rebuild Lebanon, Hezbollah will take over the country. We are also the cause of well-being."
"For 23 years, we have been speaking and mobilizing the people. We have been siding by them and speaking about the martyrdom, honour of martyrdom, and the stature of martyrs. Do the Zionists or those who encourage them imagine that I or this or that leader of Hezbollah can be afraid of martyrdom?"
"We live in a free and democratic country where each of us has the right to express oneself, but within the limits of politeness and courtesy."
"Beirut was destroyed by Sharon and protected by Hafez Assad."
"Lebanon cannot be built but with the cooperation of its citizens and dialogue between all its factions, as no one can impose on us his choices through words or even weapons."
"Your plans aiming at diving the country are wrong. Lebanon cannot be divided nor defeated. Lebanon will not change its name, or its history, or its identity. Lebanon will not throw its heart to your soldiers' dogs to eat it."
"Lebanon will remain the country of Arabism, the country of nationalism, the country of resistance. Lebanon is the nation itself."