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(1898 - 1978)
| Category | Quote | E-Mail this quote |
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| Aging | Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there’s nothing you can do. | |
| Atrocity | My delegation cannot refrain from speaking on this question -- we who have such an intimate knowledge of boxcars and of deportations to unknown destinations that we cannot be silent. | |
| Authority | Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself. | |
| compassion | It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. | |
| Cooperation | I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively. - (Israeli Prime Minister) | |
| Humility | Don't be so humble -- you are not that great.
- (to a visiting diplomat) | |
| Leadership | I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome. | |
| Leadership | A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. | |
| Mideast conflict | We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs: we have no place to go. | |
| Moses | Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! | |
| Nixon | As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing. | |
| successful women | To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. | |
| Survival | We intend to remain alive. Our neighbors want to see us dead. This is not a question that leaves much room for compromise. | |
| War | We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours. - (to Anwar Sadat just before the peace talks) | |
| War | There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse. | |
| War | I have given instructions that I be informed every time one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in the middle of the night. When President Nasser leaves instructions that he is to be awakened in the middle of the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there will be peace. | |
| War | I don't know why you use a fancy French word like détente when there's a good English phrase for it -- cold war. | |
| War | It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore. | |
| War | We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon -- no alternative. - (Prime Minister, Israel) | |
| Women's liberation | Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that. |
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