The treasury of the teacher Kamal Jumblatt never runs dry of philosophy, knowledge, and literature. Here is a bouquet of his quotes:
- If any of you is forced to choose between your party and your conscience, you must leave your party and follow your conscience, because a human being can live without a party, but cannot live without a conscience.
- We dream of the unique official who dares to arrest every Lebanese person who engages in sectarian propaganda.
- Universal human love makes a person manifest in every human being.
- The great joy is in meeting the face of the absolute Truth manifested in the glow of the sun's disk.
- Those who have no shirts on their chests are the ones who will liberate the world.
- Whoever flees the battle of life is like one who flees the battle of truth.
- Life is a victory for the strong in spirit, not for the weak.
- Life is not pleading, begging, or cajoling; it is a continuously creative and effective force that pushes the living being toward integration and toward its complete becoming (thought, spirit, and enlightenment).
- Future generations must climb the ladder of freedom, happiness, and complete human glory upon our pains, our wounds, our shackles, and our scattered blood.
- The struggle for the sake of truth is a victory in both cases, whether the result is luminous martyrdom or crushing victory; and victory is the victory of the beautiful, strong self within us, the victory of humanity within us, the victory of development over reaction, the victory of life.
- Life is entirely serious, not weariness; and whoever does not strive in their world loses themselves, and whoever loses the whole world—and no one can gain the world if they do not first gain themselves.
- We must live life; that is, we must live it cherished and fulfilling.
- Pain and suffering are necessary for developing the strong personality within us.
- Those who wish to be political leaders must build leadership in their own personalities first.
- The person cannot be separated from the principle, and the principle cannot be separated from the person.
- If we want to be socialists, we must have socialist personalities.
- We want an elite that can say to future generations: "I have done my duty."
- The only thing life is worth is that we tell the truth and work for the truth.
- Pollution is a tragedy, the tragedy of the world advanced in industry and transportation, and it is the tragic sin that will backfire on every human being and will never have mercy.
- Work itself is a relationship existing between your ego, the manifest self, and the thing you are doing. Therefore, if you look at this relationship with detachment, without concern for your ego, you work with a clear mind free from deviation and emotional drift. Thus, work for you becomes for the sake of work, not for its benefit and gains.
- Achieving freedom requires your complete commitment in life; you have no right to flee from a battle to search for the truth.
- The most purifying pain for the self is that which causes no harm to others.
- Some have saved themselves by saving others and the entire world, but those are becoming rarer and rarer. As for the others, they are content with saving themselves. Contemplate this matter for yourselves: what does a man profit if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?
