Abba Eban Quotes

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

You can always count on the American people to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other possibilities.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

If Algeria introduced a resolution that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

When all else fails, men turn to reason.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity

"History teaches us
that men and nations
only behave wisely
once they have exhausted
all other alternatives." —

"There is no difference whatever between anti-Semitism and the denial of Israel's statehood. Classical anti-Semitism denies the equal right of Jews as citizens within society. Anti-Zionism denies the equal rights of the Jewish people its lawful sovereignty within the community of nations. The common principle in the two cases is discrimination."

New York Times, 1975

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.