The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I’m not what I’d like to be.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
Women’s Liberation is just a lot of foolishness.