His ignorance is encyclopedic.
ABBA EBANConsensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
More Abba Eban Quotes
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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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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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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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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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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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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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Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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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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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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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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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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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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