Abba Eban
Abba Eban
Abba Ebanwas an Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth2 February 1915
CountryIsrael
ears movement elegance
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
again proposals rejected time tomorrow
Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today, and longed for them tomorrow
advantages
When I was first here, we had the advantages of the underdog. Now we have the disadvantages of the overdog.
behave exhausted men quotes
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
again proposals rejected time
Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.
achieve
You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way
believe people belief
Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
israel world tasks
One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
men missing rejection
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
war doubt cairo
Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter. There can be no doubt that these warnings reached Cairo. One thing was now clear. If Nasser imposed a blockade, the explosion would ensue not from 'miscalculation', but from an open-eyed and conscious readiness for war.
men missing suffering
Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
Better to be disliked than pitied.
war unconditional-love thinking
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
men waiting initiative
Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.