To shatter even the largest stones on earth, it takes only a small quantity of explosive powder.

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.

Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question. No solution! There is a gulf, and nothing can bridge it... We, as a nation, want this country to be ours; the Arabs, as a nation, want this country to be theirs.

I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?

The old will die and the young will forget.

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper as if there were no war.