Peace Quotes by Amos Oz

10 Peace quotes by Amos Oz

Amos Oz’s ten short reflections on peace read like quiet passages from a novel, weaving literary nuance into each succinct observation.

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My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace.

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I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself.

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A long war is degenerating - it ruins the mind and the soul and psyche of individuals and nations.

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When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace.

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The battlefield is first and foremost horrible stenches, not sights, not sounds, but stenches. They don't travel well into literature.

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My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace. I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in…

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I would not waste five years of my life in order to send to the Israeli readers a simple message such as,…

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My dream is much more modest than the dreams of the founding fathers. My dream is for Israel to live in peace…

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There is a difference between myself and some of the peace people in Europe: whereas they think that the ultimate evil in…

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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…

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

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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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