Shimon Peres Quotes

You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

Can any church help us to win a war? If you can't help us win a war, then please don't press us.

And this would normalize the existence of the Israeli and the Jew: a majority of Jews in the Land of Israel and a majority of Israelis among the Jewish People.

I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise.

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as science and information are the potential friends of all nations. Classical diplomacy and strategy were aimed at identifying enemies and confronting them. Now they have to identify dangers, global or local, and tackle them before they become disasters.

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

It's a morality that keeps humans human.

You're as young as your dreams, not as old as your calendar

We are the only country who is an ally of the United States that never asked for American soldiers.

Israel's doors are open to collaboration with Bulgaria.

Governments have budgets but no money, companies have money but no budgets.

Why cross and ocean when you can cross a river? Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here?

In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.

Some experts advise what to do in accordance with the past, but the past flew away, and we have to reorient ourselves in the face of new dangers.

The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don't become a dictator.