263 Quotes by Shimon Peres

You can kill a body, but you cannot kill the great and noble idea of peace.

Poverty and ignorance, which beget terror, are not eradicated by firing artillery shells. Borders do not stop rockets, and barbed wire does not prevent terror.

My family's dream, and my own, was to live in Israel, and our eventual voyage to the port of Jaffa was like making a dream come true. Had it not been for this dream and this voyage, I would probably have perished in the flames, as did so many of my people, among them most of my own family.

There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war.

We proved that the aggressors do not necessarily emerge as the victors, but we learned that the victors do not necessarily win peace.

My greatest mistake is that my dreams were too small.

It is not rifles but people who triumph, and the conclusion from all the wars is that we need better people, not better rifles - to win wars, and mainly to avoid them.

I never was after money. It never attracted me.

For 60 years, I was the most controversial figure in the country, and suddenly, I'm the most popular man in the land. Truth be told, I don't know when I was happier: then or now.