You can’t achieve anything without getting in someone’s way. You can’t be detached and effective.
ABBA EBANBetter to be disliked than pitied.
More Abba Eban Quotes
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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Israel is not an aviary.
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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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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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One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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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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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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