Ahad Ha Am Inspirational Quotes (10)

What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?

More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

[But if things continue the way they are] ...the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war.

Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.

If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming

We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.

The right place for the League of Nations is not Geneva or the Hague, Ascher Ginsberg has dreamed of a Temple on Mount Zion where the representatives of all nations should dedicate a Temple of Eternal Peace. Only when all peoples of the earth shall go to THIS temple as pilgrims is eternal peace to become a fact.

This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.

More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews.