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"Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear." / / "There will be no fraternal strife while the foe is at the gate." / / "The partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever." / / "I wish to declare that the Government of Israel will not ask any nation, be it near or far, mighty or small, to recognize our right to exist. The right.. |
"Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few." / / "Tis impossible to judge with much Precision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules.. |
"The Hebrew word for ark, teivah, also means "word". When G-d says (to Noah) "Come into the ark", He is also saying: Enter into the words of prayer and Torah study; there you will find a sanctuary of wisdom, meaning and holiness amidst the raging floodwaters of life." / / "The physical life of a Jew is a spiritual thing" / / / / "Your fellow is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering.. |
"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine." / / "As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead." / / "Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts." / / "Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music." / / "Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical.. |
"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment." / / "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." / / "Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience." / / "It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." / / "The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness." / / "The savage in man is never quite eradicated.".. |
“The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.” / / "You must accept the truthfrom whatever source it comes." / / "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." / / "If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect." / / "One should see the world, and see himself as a scale.. |
“In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles” / / “Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared” / / “Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence” / / "Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger -.. |
"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts." / / / "Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods." / / / "God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain." / / / "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival." / / / "A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something.. |
"Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with a Jew building a house in Israel than with Muslims building a nuclear bomb in Iran." |
"Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own." / / / "Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief." |
"The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear." / / / "Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow." / / / "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." |
"Nothing is more dangerous, either for an individual, or for a people, than to confess to sins of which one is ignorant." |
"One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade." / |
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