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Quotes by Leader

"Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about."

"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."

"Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you."

"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place."

"The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members."

"Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations."

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."

"Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest."

"Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer."

"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."

"We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go."

"I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up."

"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."

"War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun."

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."

"Failures should never become hindrance in the learning process. Instead, we must learn from our failures to strive and overcome challenges in our lives."

"The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges."

"France cannot be France without greatness."

"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse."

"It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel."

"We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!"

"Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program."

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment."

"I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand."

"Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong."

"Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."

"You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany."

"Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!"
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