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Quotes by Leader

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"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!"

"Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong."

"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!"

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it."

"Direct benefit transfer is a big reform. Earlier who knew where MNREGA money was going? Now it is sent by DBT. So are gas subsidy payments and student scholarships. For me all these are reforms in governance, transparency."

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

"Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis."
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