Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
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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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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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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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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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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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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You can’t achieve anything without getting in someone’s way. You can’t be detached and effective.
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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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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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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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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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Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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