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It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.
— Abba Eban
Better to be disliked than pitied.
— Abba Eban
To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.
— Geraldine Brooks
I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad.
— Norma McCorvey
Israel is not an aviary.
— Abba Eban
What these men do not know about me, though... is a black widow dangling by herself on a single thread... is a deadly thing. A really dangerous thing.
— Nathan Edmondson
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
— Benjamin Jowett
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
— Abba Eban
To create myself from nothing.
— S.J. Watson
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
— Abba Eban
Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.
— Sofia Vergara
The majority of my work is about preparation.
— Taryn Simon
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
— Aristophanes
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
— Abba Eban
If Algeria introduced a resolution that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
— Abba Eban
Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
— Abba Eban
Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.
— Abba Eban
Lincoln's eyes travel over my body, his gaze lingering on my curves. "I think I'm falling in love."
— Katie McGarry
History teaches us
that men and nations
only behave wisely
once they have exhausted
all other alternatives.
— Abba Eban
that men and nations
only behave wisely
once they have exhausted
all other alternatives.
— Abba Eban
Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.
— Abba Eban
Prayer is a powerful weapon.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
— Albert Einstein
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.
— Abba Eban
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
— Abba Eban