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Quotes by Leader
"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."
77
"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."
72
"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."
71
"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."
67
"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!"
66
"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."
62
"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."
62
"We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go."
59
"The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members."
54
"Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest."
53
"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."
52
"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."
51
"You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany."
51
"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."
49
"Failures should never become hindrance in the learning process. Instead, we must learn from our failures to strive and overcome challenges in our lives."
48
"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action."
48
"Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong."
48
"Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it."
48
"The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges."
48
"Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations."
48
"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."
47
"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."
46
"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!"
44
"General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me."
43
"I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me."
43
"Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin."
42
"It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel."
41
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