39 Quotes by Abba Eban

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

History teaches usthat men and nationsonly behave wiselyonce they have exhaustedall other alternatives."--

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

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.

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

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.

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.