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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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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Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man’s initiative.
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Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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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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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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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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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
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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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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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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
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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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Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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