Amos Oz Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.

  Amos Oz

  War, Responsibility, Self

• We lived through a relatively golden age between the end of World War II and Sept. 11, 2001.

  Amos Oz

  War, Age, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• A long war is degenerating - it ruins the mind and the soul and psyche of individuals and nations.

  Amos Oz

  War, Long, Soul

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• In some of the Israeli media, but not all, they read about very nasty things done by Israeli settlers and soldiers to Palestinian Arabs. This is a pain in the neck for many Israelis. They say: Leave us alone, what can we do about it? Or they say: Look at Syria, look at Iraq, the West Bank is paradise by comparison. I was one of the first to say, shortly after the Six-Day War, that occupation is corrupting. It corrupts the occupier and, in a different way, it corrupts the occupied.

  Amos Oz

  Pain, War, Media

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• The Six-Day War laid a foundation of deep hatred toward Israel 50 years ago. I said this at a very early moment back then, when people were chanting about liberating ancestral land. I was quick to say that regardless of the future of these territories, liberated they are not, because the term liberation only applies to human beings and not to land, not to real estate.

  Amos Oz

  Real, War, Israel

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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