Ben Gurion Quotes
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It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested.
— David Ben-Gurion
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
— David Ben-Gurion
The Arabs of the land of Israel [ Palestinians] have only one functionleft to them to run away. — David Ben-Gurion
You must talk to us as equals, or not talk to us at all.
— David Ben-Gurion
When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.
— David Ben-Gurion
It's not enough to be up to date, you have to be up to tomorrow.
— David Ben-Gurion
We have preserved the book, and the book has preserved us.
— David Ben-Gurion
We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.
— David Ben-Gurion
We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper as if there were no war.
— David Ben-Gurion
The past is our very being.
— David Ben-Gurion
We must do everything to insure they [the Palestinians] never do return ... The old will die and the young will forget.
— David Ben-Gurion
The law is whatever people determine it to be.
— David Ben-Gurion
If I was an Arab leader I would never make [peace] with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country.
— David Ben-Gurion
A Jew is anyone who says he is.
— David Ben-Gurion
In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.
— David Ben-Gurion
Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.
— David Ben-Gurion
We consider that the United Nations' ideal is a Jewish ideal.
— David Ben-Gurion
The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.
— David Ben-Gurion
What matters is not what the goyim say, but what the Jews do.
— David Ben-Gurion
If the antisemites want to hate, let them hate, and let them go to hell.
— David Ben-Gurion
From Jewish terrorism against Arabs it is a short step to Jewish terrorism against Jews.
— David Ben-Gurion
The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.
— David Ben-Gurion
It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it all the associations which a different word has. — David Ben-Gurion
Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.
— David Ben-Gurion
The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.
— David Ben-Gurion
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
— David Ben-Gurion
Referring to Palestinian refugees: We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.
— David Ben-Gurion
We must expel Arabs and take their places.
— David Ben-Gurion
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
— David Ben-Gurion
Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.
— David Ben-Gurion
Which are you first, a Jew or an American? A Jew.
— David Ben-Gurion
The riots were a turning point in Ben-Gurion's
— Anita Shapira
After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.
— David Ben-Gurion
To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.
— David Ben-Gurion
It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.
— David Ben-Gurion
If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.
— David Ben-Gurion
To shatter even the largest stones on earth, it takes only a small quantity of explosive powder.
— David Ben-Gurion