--- title: "14 Years Quotes By Amos Oz" description: "14 Years quotes by Amos Oz. Plus more from Amos Oz and more Years sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a1/amos-oz-1478_facts_in-fact-every-one-of-us-every-nation-eve_2400536.png" --- > [In fact, every one of us - every nation, every individual begins hundreds, perhaps thousands of years prior to the date that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/in-fact-every-one-of-us-every-nation-every-individual-begins-hundreds/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a1/amos-oz-1478_facts_in-fact-every-one-of-us-every-nation-eve_2400536.png) > [Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/almost-every-modern-literary-form-existed-in-hebrew-two-thousand/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5e/amos-oz-1478_age_almost-every-modern-literary-form-existe_1046326.png) > [Over 70 years after Hitler, a German chancellor, a woman, is the leader of the free world. So don't talk to me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/over-70-years-after-hitler-a-german-chancellor-a-woman-is-the-leader/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b52/amos-oz-1478_don-t-talk-to-me_over-70-years-after-hitler-a-german-chan_1588484.png) > [But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/but-for-30-years-orthodox-leaders-have-tipped-the-balance-between/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e3/amos-oz-1478_balance_but-for-30-years-orthodox-leaders-have-t_1967208.png) > [I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/i-have-seen-for-the-first-time-in-100-years-of-conflict-the-two/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e55/amos-oz-1478_conflict_i-have-seen-for-the-first-time-in-100-ye_1858545.png) > [Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/israel-is-a-fulfilled-dream-nothing-that-exists-here-existed-here-a/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb5/amos-oz-1478_dream_israel-is-a-fulfilled-dream-nothing-that_2415078.png) > [When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/when-i-need-to-take-a-side-i-write-a-newspaper-article-and-i-tell-my/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b5/amos-oz-1478_articles_when-i-need-to-take-a-side-i-write-a-new_87176.jpg) > [When I say my novels are set in Israel in the last seventy years, this entails the fact that they begin hundreds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/when-i-say-my-novels-are-set-in-israel-in-the-last-seventy-years-this/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/498/amos-oz-1478_books_when-i-say-my-novels-are-set-in-israel-i_2654525.png) > [I would not waste five years of my life in order to send to the Israeli readers a simple message such as,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/i-would-not-waste-five-years-of-my-life-in-order-to-send-to-the/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef8/amos-oz-1478_books_i-would-not-waste-five-years-of-my-life_875566.png) > [Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/not-now-for-the-last-three-thousand-years-hebrew-has-been-penetrated/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/384/amos-oz-1478_ancient_not-now-for-the-last-three-thousand-year_361469.png) > [A little more than a hundred years ago, "Tel Aviv" was not a city. It was a title of a novel written…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/a-little-more-than-a-hundred-years-ago-tel-aviv-was-not-a-city-it-was/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba2/amos-oz-1478_bookshelves_a-little-more-than-a-hundred-years-ago-t_2567217.png) > [It is wrong to take an 18-year-old boy or girl and arm them with machine guns and make them the almighty king…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/it-is-wrong-to-take-an-18-year-old-boy-or-girl-and-arm-them-with/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89e/amos-oz-1478_almighty_it-is-wrong-to-take-an-18-year-old-boy-o_2505976.png) > [The Six-Day War laid a foundation of deep hatred toward Israel 50 years ago. I said this at a very early moment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/the-six-day-war-laid-a-foundation-of-deep-hatred-toward-israel-50/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3a/amos-oz-1478_chanting_the-six-day-war-laid-a-foundation-of-dee_2649770.png) > [We got a wonderful present from Stalin and Hitler that they never meant to give us. We were immune for 60 years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/we-got-a-wonderful-present-from-stalin-and-hitler-that-they-never/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f68/amos-oz-1478_age_we-got-a-wonderful-present-from-stalin-a_274013.png) ## Other authors on Years ## More by Amos Oz > [I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/i-find-the-family-the-most-mysterious-and-fascinating-institution-in/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [“All the profits that Papa made by the sweat of his brow from his mill she extorted from him and spent the lot on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/all-the-profits-that-papa-made-by-the-sweat-of-his-brow-from-his-mill/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [Nobody ever predicted, a week before President Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, that his arrival would be the beginning of a peace process…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/nobody-ever-predicted-a-week-before-president-sadat-came-to-jerusalem/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [Every country in the world should follow the example of President Trump and move the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. But simultaneously, there should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/every-country-in-the-world-should-follow-the-example-of-president/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/actually-who-hasn-t-been-through-the-ghastly-experience-of-sitting-in/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/i-think-loathing-begets-fanaticism-and-in-the-end-loathing-begets/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/literature-is-about-telling-stories-now-the-gift-of-literature-is/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/very-often-fanaticism-begins-at-home-it-begins-inside-the-family-it/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that, you should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/when-i-need-to-take-a-side-i-write-a-newspaper-article-and-i-tell-my/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [We have to carry through to the next day and hope that we will be okay tomorrow as we are today and in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/we-have-to-carry-through-to-the-next-day-and-hope-that-we-will-be/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [Trump is many things. He is pampered. He is an immature man. He is a teenager craving unconditional, endless love from everybody.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/trump-is-many-things-he-is-pampered-he-is-an-immature-man-he-is-a/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/the-only-way-to-keep-a-dream-any-dream-at-all-to-keep-a-dream-perfect/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [“Judaism and Christianity, and Islam too, all drip honeyed words of love and mercy so long as they do not have access to handcuffs,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/judaism-and-christianity-and-islam-too-all-drip-honeyed-words-of-love/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [Never cut loose from your longings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/never-cut-loose-from-your-longings/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/if-people-are-pro-israel-they-are-pro-israel-one-hundred-and-twenty/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/years/amos-oz/#itemlist", "name": "14 Years Quotes By Amos Oz", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In fact, every one of us - every nation, every individual begins hundreds, perhaps thousands of years prior to the date that appears in the passport.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/in-fact-every-one-of-us-every-nation-every-individual-begins-hundreds/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a1/amos-oz-1478_facts_in-fact-every-one-of-us-every-nation-eve_2400536.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a1/amos-oz-1478_facts_in-fact-every-one-of-us-every-nation-eve_2400536.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a1/amos-oz-1478_facts_in-fact-every-one-of-us-every-nation-eve_2400536.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In fact, every one of us - every nation, every individual begins hundreds, perhaps thousands of years prior…” — Amos Oz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. 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And, sometimes in very, very different places, because we all come from somewhere, especially here in Israel.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/when-i-say-my-novels-are-set-in-israel-in-the-last-seventy-years-this/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/498/amos-oz-1478_books_when-i-say-my-novels-are-set-in-israel-i_2654525.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/498/amos-oz-1478_books_when-i-say-my-novels-are-set-in-israel-i_2654525.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/498/amos-oz-1478_books_when-i-say-my-novels-are-set-in-israel-i_2654525.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“When I say my novels are set in Israel in the last seventy years, this entails the fact that they begin…” — Amos Oz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I would not waste five years of my life in order to send to the Israeli readers a simple message such as, \"Let us change a policy or stop the settlements,\" Or, \"Let us strive for peace.\" This is not what it is about.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/i-would-not-waste-five-years-of-my-life-in-order-to-send-to-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef8/amos-oz-1478_books_i-would-not-waste-five-years-of-my-life_875566.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef8/amos-oz-1478_books_i-would-not-waste-five-years-of-my-life_875566.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef8/amos-oz-1478_books_i-would-not-waste-five-years-of-my-life_875566.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I would not waste five years of my life in order to send to the Israeli readers a simple message such as…” — Amos Oz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by Latin, by Arabic, by Yiddish, by Latino, by German, by Russian, by English, I could go on and on. 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