Motherhood Quote by Shimon Peres

Peres slips something audaciously modest into a couple of plain sentences: a statesman’s origin story told without heroics. The opening detail - “I have a brother younger than me” - is almost comically ordinary, a family fact that refuses grandeur. It’s also a quiet assertion of continuity: politics, in Peres’s telling, begins not in the halls of power but in the household, where roles are assigned early and responsibility is learned in the small negotiations of kinship.

Then comes the real reveal: his mother, a librarian, and the inheritance of reading. Peres is signaling the kind of power he trusts - not charisma or force, but literacy, curiosity, and the slow accumulation of knowledge. In a country forged in emergency and perpetual security debate, positioning books as formative is a deliberate counter-myth. He’s aligning leadership with the civil infrastructure of learning: institutions, libraries, patient study, the idea that a future can be argued into existence with words.

The subtext is both personal and political. Peres, often cast as a technocrat and visionary, frames “taste to read” as destiny without sounding deterministic. He implies that imagination is trained, not innate, and that nation-building is an intellectual project as much as a military one. It’s also a strategic humility: by crediting his mother, he sidesteps self-mythologizing while still explaining the intellectual confidence that defined his career - the belief that ideas, properly read and wielded, can move history.