--- title: "10 East Quotes By Shimon Peres" description: "10 East quotes by Shimon Peres. Plus more from Shimon Peres and more East sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89c/shimon-peres-1970_conflict_in-the-middle-east-the-conflict-today-is_1264660.png" --- > [In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/in-the-middle-east-the-conflict-today-is-a-matter-of-generations-and/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89c/shimon-peres-1970_conflict_in-the-middle-east-the-conflict-today-is_1264660.png) > [The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/the-problem-of-the-middle-east-is-poverty-more-than-politics/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f07/shimon-peres-1970_east_the-problem-of-the-middle-east-is-povert_906448.png) > [The Middle East is replete with both new and old threats. One should not underestimate these threats, but not be alarmed by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/the-middle-east-is-replete-with-both-new-and-old-threats-one-should/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfc/shimon-peres-1970_east_the-middle-east-is-replete-with-both-new_1107465.png) > [You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/you-know-who-is-against-democracy-in-the-middle-east-the-husbands/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1a/shimon-peres-1970_change_you-know-who-is-against-democracy-in-the_2783862.jpg) > [Palestinians are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/palestinians-are-becoming-religiously-fanatic-israel-is-becoming/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cac/shimon-peres-1970_becoming_palestinians-are-becoming-religiously-fa_1649784.png) > [The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/the-middle-east-is-ailing-the-malady-stems-from-pervasive-violence/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6dc/shimon-peres-1970_absence_the-middle-east-is-ailing-the-malady-ste_1202467.jpg) > [Germany and Israel should dream together for a Middle East in which all the countries are willing to exchange the dispute of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/germany-and-israel-should-dream-together-for-a-middle-east-in-which/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b68/shimon-peres-1970_children_germany-and-israel-should-dream-together_1849545.png) > [What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/what-is-wrong-with-the-iranians-in-addition-to-the-nuclear-bomb-this/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00e/shimon-peres-1970_21st-century_what-is-wrong-with-the-iranians-in-addit_1271181.jpg) > [The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/the-iranian-regime-suppresses-its-own-people-as-well-as-others-in-the/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99b/shimon-peres-1970_aim_the-iranian-regime-suppresses-its-own-pe_2341623.jpg) > [Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/look-we-have-existed-for-4-000-years-2-000-years-in-diaspora-in-exile/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22e/shimon-peres-1970_diaspora_look-we-have-existed-for-4-000-years-2-0_708793.png) ## Other authors on East ## More by Shimon Peres > [One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/one-of-the-things-the-united-states-does-well-is-building-coalitions/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) > [I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world by killing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/i-don-t-think-anybody-who-carries-a-rifle-carries-the-future-because/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) > [I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/i-thought-all-my-life-that-optimists-and-pessimists-pass-away-the/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) > [I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/i-call-on-the-iranian-people-it-is-not-too-late-to-replace-the/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) > [In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/in-many-ways-the-media-today-makes-dictatorship-impossible-but-it/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) > [For many years the stakes were clear. There were the Arabs attacking us and us defending ourselves, so basically there were no real problems…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/for-many-years-the-stakes-were-clear-there-were-the-arabs-attacking/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) > [It's a morality that keeps humans human.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/it-s-a-morality-that-keeps-humans-human/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) > [When it becomes a bloody reality, we have to come together and look at what can be done to return to the order of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/when-it-becomes-a-bloody-reality-we-have-to-come-together-and-look-at/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) > [A politician and a government should be judged by one way only: on the record of what you do or did, not on what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/a-politician-and-a-government-should-be-judged-by-one-way-only-on-the/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) > [“The choice the pioneers faced was stark: succeed or starve.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/the-choice-the-pioneers-faced-was-stark-succeed-or-starve/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) > [We are living in a world where image-making is important, so we ignore the facts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/we-are-living-in-a-world-where-image-making-is-important-so-we-ignore/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) > [The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/the-internet-facebook-and-twitter-have-created-mass-communications/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) > [We had a lot of support - don't give me "the world", just the televisions. In America we enjoy support,China is neutral, India is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/we-had-a-lot-of-support-don-t-give-me-the-world-just-the-televisions/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) > [You're as young as your dreams, not as old as your calendar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/you-re-as-young-as-your-dreams-not-as-old-as-your-calendar/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) > [In every war, there are always elements of blindness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/in-every-war-there-are-always-elements-of-blindness/) [Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/east/shimon-peres/#itemlist", "name": "10 East Quotes By Shimon Peres", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Shimon Peres" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/in-the-middle-east-the-conflict-today-is-a-matter-of-generations-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89c/shimon-peres-1970_conflict_in-the-middle-east-the-conflict-today-is_1264660.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89c/shimon-peres-1970_conflict_in-the-middle-east-the-conflict-today-is_1264660.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89c/shimon-peres-1970_conflict_in-the-middle-east-the-conflict-today-is_1264660.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.” — Shimon Peres", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Shimon Peres" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/the-problem-of-the-middle-east-is-poverty-more-than-politics/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f07/shimon-peres-1970_east_the-problem-of-the-middle-east-is-povert_906448.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f07/shimon-peres-1970_east_the-problem-of-the-middle-east-is-povert_906448.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f07/shimon-peres-1970_east_the-problem-of-the-middle-east-is-povert_906448.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.” — Shimon Peres", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The Middle East is replete with both new and old threats. 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