"It is crystal clear to me that if……" — Amos Oz
"It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain."
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31 Quotes by Amos Oz
Amos Oz has 31 quotes on this site.
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Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: Yids, go back to Palestine, so we came…
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The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.
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I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much…
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I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.
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On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
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I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano…
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All of my novels are democracies.
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But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position…
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I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and…
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I recommend the art of slow reading.
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Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a…
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Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.
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More Abstain Quotes
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one of 92 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
— Saint Augustine
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When you doubt, abstain.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from…
— Carre Otis
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Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of…
— George Washington
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"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one…
— Ayn Rand
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We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no…
— John Randolph of Roanoke
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Pilate sentenced him due to fear, in accordance with the petition and intention of others. These people sentence him for…
— Bridget of Sweden
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If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality,…
— Seneca the Younger
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Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been…
— Henry David Thoreau
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