Isaac Deutscher Quotes

A man once jumped from the top floor of a burning house in which many members of his family had already perished. He managed to save his life; but as he was falling he hit a person standing down below and broke that person's legs and arms. The jumping man had no choice; yet to the man with the broken limbs he was the cause of his misfortune. If both behaved rationally, they would not become enemies.

I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.

Trees have roots, Jews have legs.