Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.

I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.

Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

Once in a Cabinet we had to deal with the fact that there had been an outbreak of assaults on women at night. One minister suggested a curfew; women should stay home after dark. I said, 'But it's the men who are attacking the women. If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.

We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.