Abba Eban Quotes

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

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.

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

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.

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

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.