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Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

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.

Better to be disliked than pitied.

History teaches us
that men and nations
only behave wisely
once they have exhausted
all other alternatives.

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

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

Israel is not an aviary.

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

Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.

If Algeria introduced a resolution that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

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.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives