I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
When I say compromise I do not mean capitulation. When I say compromise I definitely do not mean what Jesus Christ meant… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The reconciliation is not based on the fact that one of the characters opens his eyes and says, "O brother! O sister!… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize.… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. I write about reconciliation, but… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists. Compromise is not popular. It's not at all… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
What is likely to happen? Either an escalation of violence or an entire change in the whole Middle East theater. It may… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Let me make it very clear: when I say compromise I do not mean capitulation. When I say compromise I definitely do… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“All the profits that Papa made by the sweat of his brow from his mill she extorted from him and spent the lot on… — Amos Oz Copy Share
Nobody ever predicted, a week before President Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, that his arrival would be the beginning of a peace process… — Amos Oz Copy Share
Every country in the world should follow the example of President Trump and move the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. But simultaneously, there should… — Amos Oz Copy Share
Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience of sitting in front of a blank page, with its toothless mouth grinning at you: Go… — Amos Oz Copy Share
I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence. — Amos Oz Copy Share
Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the… — Amos Oz Copy Share
Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved… — Amos Oz Copy Share
When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that, you should… — Amos Oz Copy Share
We have to carry through to the next day and hope that we will be okay tomorrow as we are today and in the… — Amos Oz Copy Share
Trump is many things. He is pampered. He is an immature man. He is a teenager craving unconditional, endless love from everybody. — Amos Oz Copy Share
The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never… — Amos Oz Copy Share
“Judaism and Christianity, and Islam too, all drip honeyed words of love and mercy so long as they do not have access to handcuffs,… — Amos Oz Copy Share
If people are pro-Israel, they are pro-Israel one-hundred-and-twenty percent. If they are anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian, they tend to be pro-Palestinian one-hundred-and-twenty percent. I don't… — Amos Oz Copy Share
