Abba Eban
(February 2, 1915 - November 16, 2002)
Israeli diplomat and politician; born Aubrey Solomon Eban
- A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
- His ignorance is encyclopedic
- 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.
- If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
- Comment about the United Nations General Assembly [1]
- 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.
- Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
- The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
- Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today-and longed for them tomorrow.
- When I was first here, we had the advantages of the underdog. Now we have the disadvantages of the overdog.
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