Country Quotes by Amos Oz

11 Country quotes by Amos Oz

Amos Oz’s musings on country are distilled into eleven concise lines, each echoing his literary sensibility and concern for communal life. The collection is brief but gives a solid sense of his nuanced perspective.

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"The State of the Jews" was not a title of a country. It was a title of a futuristic novel.

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Israel should aspire to be a decent country. That's good enough for me.

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Every country in the world should follow the example of President Trump and move the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. But simultaneously,…

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But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine…

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The Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they…

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The Jews have a powerful ally, America, but they do not really have a bigger family in the same way that there…

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Sometimes, recently Israeli-Palestinian conflict is indeed a clash between wrong and wrong. It is not as simple as fascism was. Every decent…

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A little more than a hundred years ago, "Tel Aviv" was not a city. It was a title of a novel written…

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The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied…

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The moment you carry out any of your dreams or your fantasies - travel around the world, climbing a high mountain, buying…

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Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago. "The State of the Jews" was not…

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I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

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Nobody ever predicted, a week before President Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, that his arrival would be the beginning of a peace process…

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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…

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I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence.

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Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the…

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Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved…

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When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that, you should…

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We have to carry through to the next day and hope that we will be okay tomorrow as we are today and in the…

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Trump is many things. He is pampered. He is an immature man. He is a teenager craving unconditional, endless love from everybody.

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The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never…

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“Judaism and Christianity, and Islam too, all drip honeyed words of love and mercy so long as they do not have access to handcuffs,…

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Never cut loose from your longings.

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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…

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