I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist? — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
We checked carefully the international law - what does a nation do when terrorists are using civilians to defend their life, as… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
[Hamas] thought that if you go to elections you become a democrat for the rest of your life. They think that democracy… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“When Israel was weak, I worked to make her fierce. But once she was strong, I gave my life’s efforts to peace.” — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
My goal in life was to serve my people, and the most important service for the Jewish people is building the land,… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“tell them that both optimists and pessimists die in the end, but the optimist leads a hopeful and happy existence while the… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“My only regret is not having dreamed more. I got my life as a gift. I’ll give it up without an overdraft.” — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Any assassination is an assassination. It's cold, it's terrible. I'm against any capital punishment. Only the Lord has the right to take… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“Whoever of you love life and desire to see many good days, keep your tongue from evil and your lips from telling… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“more. I got my life as a gift. I’ll give it up without an overdraft. Every once in a while, someone will… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
And this would normalize the existence of the Israeli and the Jew: a majority of Jews in the Land of Israel and… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“I was given my life, some two and a half billion seconds: I did some reckoning, and I decided to do something… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
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… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
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… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist? — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
For many years the stakes were clear. There were the Arabs attacking us and us defending ourselves, so basically there were no real problems… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
When it becomes a bloody reality, we have to come together and look at what can be done to return to the order of… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
A politician and a government should be judged by one way only: on the record of what you do or did, not on what… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
We are living in a world where image-making is important, so we ignore the facts. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
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