Quotes by Israeli/Israel authors (page 3)

"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me"

"And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time"

"A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

"Let me into your lives, your world. Live on me, so that you may become truly alive"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

"Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears by voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

"If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

"All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

"We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

"For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

"I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

"I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

"When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

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