Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic. "
Shimon Peres
Me
Pragmatic
Simply
Related Quotes:
" I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read. "
Shimon Peres
Brother
Me
Her
" The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality. "
Shimon Peres
Live
Loneliness
Respect
" Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization. "
Shimon Peres
Organization
Government
Trust
" You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress. "
Shimon Peres
Life
Women
Change
" Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital. "
Shimon Peres
Morning
Girl
Love
" What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part? "
Shimon Peres
Future
Important
Land
" What you can do with relations is greater than what you can do with guns. "
Shimon Peres
Than
Greater
Guns
" Let all of us turn from bullets to ballots, from guns to shovels. "
Shimon Peres
Ballots
Turn
Guns
" A politician and a government should be judged by one way only: on the record of what you do or did, not on what you say. "
Shimon Peres
You
Way
Say
" I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist? "
Shimon Peres
My Life
Life
Way
" In order to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country you have to introduce a system of verification and inspection. "
Shimon Peres
Becoming
You
Order
" He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor. "
Shimon Peres
Personal
Literature
Me
" The wars we fought were forced upon us. Thanks to the Israel Defense Forces, we won them all, but we did not win the greatest victory that we aspired to: release from the need to win victories. "
Shimon Peres
Victories
Thanks
Victory
" What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism. "
Shimon Peres
Earth
Imperialism
Want
" When I was a child, Israel was a legend more than a reality. She emerged from a dream, and today she has surpassed that dream. "
Shimon Peres
Child
Today
Reality
" And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs. "
Shimon Peres
Think
Against
Us
" I knew that the most important thing a man has is in his head, and from a young age, I often studied the head structure of each person, hoping to crack his codes. I considered a high forehead a gift from God. "
Shimon Peres
God
Important
Young
" I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy. "
Shimon Peres
Happy
History
School
" I learned that public service is a privilege that must be based on moral foundations. "
Shimon Peres
Moral
Service
Public Service
" One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do. "
Shimon Peres
Tourism
Important
Economy
" Science doesn't have flags. Science doesn't have borders. "
Shimon Peres
Science
Borders
Flags
" In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology. "
Shimon Peres
Science
Technology
Innovation
" I have the highest respect for Obama. I have worked with 10 American presidents, both Republicans and Democrats. As far as Israeli security is concerned, he has done the most that an American president can do. "
Shimon Peres
American
Done
Security
" Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region. "
Shimon Peres
End
Help
Young
" A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends. "
Shimon Peres
Believe
Solution
I Believe
" If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out. "
Shimon Peres
Things
People
I Am
" I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook. "
Shimon Peres
People
Think
Peace
" When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist. "
Shimon Peres
You
Look
Two
" My goal in life was to serve my people, and the most important service for the Jewish people is building the land, and the basics of building the people and the country is working the land. "
Shimon Peres
Building
Service
People
" Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances. "
Shimon Peres
Respect
War
Time