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.… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Democracy in many parts of the world is undergoing a very deep crisis. Politics is becoming a branch of the entertainment industry.… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
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. — 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
I follow the way people change. I follow the way people, who are very antagonized to one another become very close to… — 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
I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is special in a different… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The Jews have a powerful ally, America, but they do not really have a bigger family in the same way that there… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Universally, not only in Israel, people want to feel good about themselves. We all want to feel good to some extent. — 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
When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The Six-Day War laid a foundation of deep hatred toward Israel 50 years ago. I said this at a very early moment… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The kibbutz way of life is not for everyone. It is meant for people who are not in the business of working… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image