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Quotes by Israeli Authors
"Stop relying only on technology.Technology can help the qualified, well-trained human being but cannot replace him."
"Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse."
"Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence."
"There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse."
"The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years."
"The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals."
"There is only so much negotiating and maneuvering that can be done while the aircraft is under siege in mid-air. Therefore, the best way to put a stop to hijacking is by having high levels of security implemented by qualified and trained personnel both on the ground and in the air."
"It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore."
"Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short."
"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."
"Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either."
"After Lockerbie, everyone thought, now we've learned the lesson of how to be proactive instead of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country."
"We know that the airports are not protected as they should be protected. The terminals are public areas, wide open - anyone can go and walk at any terminal he wants."
"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."
"Fundamentalist governments and organizations endanger stability in the world."
"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."
"We have an illusion of security, we don't have security."
"Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs."
"The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime."
"The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America."
"To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be."
"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."
"Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability."
"They can argue whatever they want. The problem is, when you interview every passenger, during the interviews you are looking for - you profile - you do profiling, to find the suspicious ones and put them out from the rest of the passengers."
"Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them."
"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."
"By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime."
"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."
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