Abba Eban Quotes

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

His ignorance is encyclopedic

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

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.

Israel is not an aviary.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today-and longed for them tomorrow.

When I was first here, we had the advantages of the underdog. Now we have the disadvantages of the overdog.