Quotes by Abba Eban - Page 1

Israel is not an aviary.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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Clever
Ignorance
Sarcastic
His
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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Disliked
Pitied
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Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Men
Missing
Suffering
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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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Diversity
Justice
Writing
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
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Achieve
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Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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Opportunity
Missing
Palestinian
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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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Could Have Been
Differences
Tragedy
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Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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Alternatives
Exhausted
Humans
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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
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Belief
Believe
Chorus
Consensus
People
Individuals
People Say
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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Alternatives
Behave
Exhausted
Nations
Once
Other
Wisely
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Agree
Believe
Consensus
Mean
Sarcastic
Everyone
Believes
Collectively
Say
Means
Individually
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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Leadership
Politics
Mean
Opposites
Political
Political Leaders
Opposite
Leaders
They Say
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Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.
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Rejected
Tomorrow
Time Today Tomorrow
Governments
Proposals
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective.
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Change
Achievement
Way
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Funny
History
War
Alternatives
Behave
Exhausted
Nations
Sarcasm
Sarcastic
Teaches
Wisely
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Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.
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Men
Initiative
Waiting
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Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
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Futility Of Life
Golf
Humility
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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Ears
Elegance
Flexibility
Movement
Posture
Ear
Glued
Ground
Neither
Nor
Permanently
Statesman
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
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Constant
Embodiment
Might
Minorities
Duties
Owe
Jews
Minority
Societies
Reminder
Whoever
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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.
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Unconditional Love
War
Firsts
Morrow
Surrender
Thinking
Unconditional
Victor's
War Peace History
Sued
Vanquished
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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.
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Men
Ambition
Evil
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Men
Impulsive
Missing
Rejection
Routine
Sheer
Tempted
Tragedy
Arab
Miss
Governments
Lest
Rush
Suffer
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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Algeria
Declaring
Earth
Israel
Resolution
Vote
Flat
Introduced
Pass
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One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
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Anti Semitism
Dialogue
Distinction
Israel
Prove
Tasks
World
Chief
Gentile
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Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it. [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program]
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Groups
Horse
Research
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Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.
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Land
Names
People
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Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its 'right to exist.' Israel's right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi Arabia and 152 other states, is axiomatic and unreserved. Israel's legitimacy is not suspended in midair awaiting acknowledgement.... There is certainly no other state, big or small, young or old, that would consider mere recognition of its 'right to exist' a favor, or a negotiable concession.
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Arabia
Israel
United States
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Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter. There can be no doubt that these warnings reached Cairo. One thing was now clear. If Nasser imposed a blockade, the explosion would ensue not from 'miscalculation', but from an open-eyed and conscious readiness for war.
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War
Cairo
Doubt
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