Shimon Peres Quotes
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I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.
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In any democratic country you have more than one view.
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The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.
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We are the only country who is an ally of the United States that never asked for American soldiers.
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Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.
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If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent - that's good enough.
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Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!
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Governments are based on power, companies are based on goodwill, which allows them to invest in the future.
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You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.
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Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.
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In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.
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What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?
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If you eat three times a day, you become fat. If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better to be wise than fat.
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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.
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I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.
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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.
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Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level.
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The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.
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And this would normalize the existence of the Israeli and the Jew: a majority of Jews in the Land of Israel and a majority of Israelis among the Jewish People.
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Iran is a great problem, but not necessarily a great country. In fact, I think it is a very weak country.
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I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.
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My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.
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One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are.
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You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.
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I cannot go to elections with an open stomach. If you want to negotiate we have to conclude it before the elections. I cannot just start the negotiations [with Palestinians] saying we are ready to do this and that and not having any reply.
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[Hamas] lives on their rifles and bombs.
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A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends.
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It's a morality that keeps humans human.
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In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.
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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.
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Shimon Peres
- Born: August 2, 1923
- Died: September 28, 2016
- Occupation: President of Israel
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