One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...
There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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.
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.
The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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 want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
Don't be humble... you're not that great.
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!
We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
Once in a Cabinet we had to deal with the fact that there had been an outbreak of assaults on women at night. One minister suggested a curfew; women should stay home after dark. I said, 'But it's the men who are attacking the women. If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
It isnt enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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.
One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field with a very primitive plow; pulling the plow were an ox and a woman. Now, if it means that we have destroyed this romantic picture by bringing in tractors, combines, and threshing machines, this is true: we have.
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.
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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