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Israeli Politician Inspirational Quotes (38)

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Under questioning, a terrorist should be made to yield.
Ami Ayalon
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A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.
Ami Ayalon
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As an Israeli, I have come to understand: there is no way to love Israel and reject a two-state peace, no way to love Israel and reject Palestine.
Yael Dayan
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Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don't want your support until you make your country democratic.
Natan Sharansky
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Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
Natan Sharansky
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Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.
Natan Sharansky
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I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.
Natan Sharansky
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People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
Natan Sharansky
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The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
Natan Sharansky
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It's for the Palestinians to decide who will lead them.
Ami Ayalon
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Frustration is not a work plan.
Ami Ayalon
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In moments of pain, we seek revenge.
Ami Ayalon
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This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.
Natan Sharansky
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The Labor Party is a body that does not seek political life, and does not fight for its life.
Ami Ayalon
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My theory is that security - also against terror - can only be accomplished through global democratization.
Natan Sharansky
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An order to fire on people that do not fire on you is a completely illegal order.
Ami Ayalon
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Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.
Natan Sharansky
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Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
Natan Sharansky
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Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.
Ami Ayalon
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Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.
Natan Sharansky
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Gaza will become part of sovereign Israel and will be populated by Jews. This will also serve to ease the housing crisis in Israel
Moshe Feiglin
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The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.
Natan Sharansky
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The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.
Natan Sharansky
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When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
Natan Sharansky
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