Abba Eban Quotes

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. - Abba Eban

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

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

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all. - Abba Eban

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

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

Israel is not an aviary. - Abba Eban

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