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"There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior."  — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Abba Eban Quotes

Type: Diplomat   |    Date of Birth: 0000-00-00   |    Year of Death:    |    Nationality: Israeli
Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
Abba Eban

His ignorance is encyclopedic
Abba Eban

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
Abba Eban

Israel is not an aviary.
Abba Eban

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
Abba Eban

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
Abba Eban

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
Abba Eban

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
Abba Eban

Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today-and longed for them tomorrow.
Abba Eban

When I was first here, we had the advantages of the underdog. Now we have the disadvantages of the overdog.
Abba Eban


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