"The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state...I very much favour democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important."

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Source : "The Rise of Avigdor Lieberman". Ben Lynfield, The Nation, December 14, 2006.

Avigdor Lieberman

#Vision Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Important Quotes

“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”
“Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many diseases, including sickle cell anemia.”
“Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.”
“Post-publication I have been surprised at the limited resources publishers have to promote books. I certainly knew that being a new author, I would have to do a lot of self-promoting, but it really has surprised me just how much I have had to do myself to make sure the books get into the hands of young people.”
“Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.”

Source : Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.180, Random House
“You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don't make bad decisions based on empathy.”
“Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive to development, peace, justice and civility.”
“In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.”

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