Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
A long war is degenerating - it ruins the mind and the soul and psyche of individuals and nations. — 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
This bloody conflict has been going on for much too long. It is doing terrible things to Israelis, to Palestinians. One of… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
We lived through a relatively golden age between the end of World War II and Sept. 11, 2001. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
There is a difference between myself and some of the peace people in Europe: whereas they think that the ultimate evil in… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down… — 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
And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim… — 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
Sometimes, recently Israeli-Palestinian conflict is indeed a clash between wrong and wrong. It is not as simple as fascism was. Every decent… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
In some of the Israeli media, but not all, they read about very nasty things done by Israeli settlers and soldiers to… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a tragedy; it is a clash between right and right. And, therefore it's not black and white. Sometimes,… — 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
