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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.

Being seventy is not a sin.

There is no such thing as a Palestinian people ... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Don't be so humble, you're not that great.

This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.

We don't want wars even when we win.

There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.

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.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.

You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.

There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.

You can't improve on saying nothing.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

It isnt enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.

Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.

It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.

Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Don't be humble. Your not that great.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

I don't want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there's no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won't die young.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say ... but i can say they are certainly no worse.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?

If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.

The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.

Don't be so humble - you are not that great.

By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

Don't be humble ... you're not that great.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.

Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil.

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

Fashion is an imposition, a rein on freedom.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?