Marriage Quote by Shimon Peres

Peres turns a meet-cute into a miniature parable about power: not just the political kind he spent his life chasing, but the intimate kind that shows up when you try to win someone over with ideas. The first sly move is the timing - "Early in the morning" - a line that feels like dawn-as-destiny, the sort of soft-lit inevitability leaders like to project onto history. Then he punctures it with comedy: young, "naive", attempting seduction via Marx's Capital. Romance as pamphleteering.

The subtext is richer than the punchline. Peres admits, almost disarmingly, that ideology was once for him what poetry is for most people: a language of admiration, a way to signal seriousness, to appear worthy. He also confesses a very political impulse inside a private story: the belief that argument, if strong enough, can convert. It's a statesman's faith smuggled into courtship - the same confidence that rational critique can reorder a system, whether an economy or a heart.

Context sharpens the irony. Peres came out of a labor-Zionist milieu where socialism wasn't a campus pose; it was part of the founding grammar of the state. Reading Marx to a future spouse reflects a generation that treated grand theory as everyday equipment, even when it misfired. The line lands because it holds two truths at once: youthful certainty is adorable, and it's also how ambitious people practice for the larger persuading they plan to do later.