It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
ABBA EBANI 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.
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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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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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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Israel is not an aviary.
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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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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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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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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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Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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