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Quotes by Israeli Authors

"We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons."

"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 - and we will complete the message."

"Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all."

"You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity."

"Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor."

"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."

"Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population."


"I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy."

"I am looking forward to even greater healings and miracles in my ministry."

"We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory."

"I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt."

"Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?"

"So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel."

"Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?... Terrible. I believe there's technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy."

"The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains."

"There is no comparison between the training here and the training in Israel."

"The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth."

"A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays."

"To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man."

"We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient."


"In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state."


"The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom."

"Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it."


"There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place."


"Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution."


"I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil."

"There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it."

"And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb."
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