The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

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.

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

Israel is not an aviary.

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective.

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.

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.

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.

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.

Just as the truth can be buried under a rubble of lies, a lie can be buried under a rubble of truth.

The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life.

As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.

When I, who is called a "weapon" or a "monster", fight a real monster, I can fully realize that I am just a "human".

You don't get big and strong from lifting weights - you get big and strong from recovering from lifting weights

I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

What was once easy became confused and hard, which brings us back to the mystic question, who is God?

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.