Eliezer Ben-Yehuda famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If we wish that the name Israel be not extinguished, then we are in duty bound to create something which may serve as a center for our entire people, like the heart in an organism, from which the blood will stream into all the arteries of the national body and fill it with life.
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The Hebrew language will go from the synagogue to the house of study, and from the house of study to the school, and from the school it will come into the home and... become a living language
-- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
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A divided heart loses both worlds.
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The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.
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Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
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Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
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I worry because there is a basic asymmetry, an imbalance, between the two parties. For the Palestinians, it is about status and sovereignty, which could always be adjusted, while for Israel it is about security and trust. And security is something you can't adjust. If you make a mistake on the scrutiny issue, there is no going back.
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