History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
ABBA EBANBetter to be disliked than pitied.
More Abba Eban Quotes
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Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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You can’t achieve anything without getting in someone’s way. You can’t be detached and effective.
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Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man’s initiative.
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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it. [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program]
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It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.
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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated…to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter.
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Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People’s sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name.
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Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its ‘right to exist.’ Israel’s right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi Arabia and 152 other states, is axiomatic and unreserved.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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