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
Can any church help us to win a war? If you can't help us win a war, then please don't press us. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The wars we fought were forced upon us. Thanks to the Israel Defense Forces, we won them all, but we did not… — 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
In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
It is not rifles but people who triumph, and the conclusion from all the wars is that we need better people, not… — 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
“Peace is a purpose—a goal worthy of the chase, while war is a function—born out of reluctant necessity.” — 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
