I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Governments are based on power, companies are based on goodwill, which allows them to invest in the future. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“If you eat three times a day you'll be fed but if you read three times a day you'll be wise".” — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
If you eat three times a day, you become fat. If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
I dreamed of a future as a muscular, tanned, kibbutznik, who plowed the fertile fields of the Jezreel Valley in the day,… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Some experts advise what to do in accordance with the past, but the past flew away, and we have to reorient ourselves… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“I have earned the title of expert, it is only on what was. There is no expert on what will be. And… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time… — 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
