Shimon Peres Quotes

• The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.

  Shimon Peres

  Topics in Wisdom

• History is a horse that gallops past the window, and you have to decide whether to jump or not.

  Shimon Peres

  Topics in History

• Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

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  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Television

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Solution, Israel

• Bulgaria is a true friend of Israel, that stood up to save the Jewish people 70 years ago in Europe, and who stood by throughout the terror attack that took place in Burgas last July.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Israel, Friend

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conflict, Israel

• I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent – urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace, Believe

• He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Literature, Personal

• He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was – I wouldn’t say the “guru” – but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Created, Editor

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Alternative

• 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

  Topics in Love

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in England

• For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.

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  Tags in Dreaming

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Israel, Land

• I worked with a group of people who argued day and night – professors, officials, the Minister of Finance – but there were decisions that I had to make.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Argued

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Jumped

• I didn’t plan to be a politician. The founder of our country, David Ben-Gurion, called me from the kibbutz to serve in the underground. We were short of manpower, short of arms. I was 24 years old. I was supposed to serve my country for one or two years. I am 89 years old this year, and I keep going.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Founder

• I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles… How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people’s freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.

  Shimon Peres

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

• I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.

  Shimon Peres

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace

• I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

  Shimon Peres

  Topics in Mother

Shimon Peres (64)

Birth:	2nd August, 1923
Nationality:	Israeli
Profession:	Politician, Prime Minister, Statesman

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