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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Being seventy is not a sin.
Even paranoids have real enemies.
You can't improve on saying nothing.
We don't want wars even when we win.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
There is no such thing as a Palestinian.
Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
Don't be humble... you're not that great.
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.
It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.
You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.
The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.
Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?
There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
