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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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.
ABBA EBANIt [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.
ABBA EBANLest 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.
ABBA EBANHis ignorance is encyclopedic.
ABBA EBANA nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
ABBA EBANBetter to be disliked than pitied.
ABBA EBANIt is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
ABBA EBANPlaying the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
ABBA EBANThe Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
ABBA EBANIsrael is not an aviary.
ABBA EBANTragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
ABBA EBANNobody 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.
ABBA EBANScience 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]
ABBA EBANIf 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.
ABBA EBANA consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
ABBA EBANHistory teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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