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.

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  Topics in Wisdom

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

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  Topics in History

• You’re either with me or you’re not. And if you’re not, you’re out.

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• Pouring concrete on land you don’t own is called a calculated risk, if you don’t pour you loose millions.

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  Tags in Land

• Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn’t succeed.

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  Tags in People, Grew

• At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.

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• We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.

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• 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.

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• 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

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Israel, Land

• When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.

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• When I look at the record of President Obama concerning the major issue security I think it’s a highly satisfactory record from Israeli point of view.

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• You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

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• 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.

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  Topics in Democracy

• Today, the people are governing the governments. And when they begin to talk to each other, they are surprised, they can be friends. Why should we hate each other?

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  Tags in People, Today

• They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.

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• There was one occasion when I was very young – eight years or seven years old – that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place.

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• There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.

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• The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don’t become a dictator.

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• The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn’t produce money. Ideas produce money.

  Shimon Peres

  Topics in History, Power

• The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

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Shimon Peres (64)

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

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