David Ben-Gurion Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von David Ben-Gurion:

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

David Ben-Gurion

There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million.

David Ben-Gurion

Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.

David Ben-Gurion

Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.

David Ben-Gurion

In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

David Ben-Gurion

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

David Ben-Gurion

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

David Ben-Gurion

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

David Ben-Gurion

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

David Ben-Gurion

If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.

David Ben-Gurion

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.

David Ben-Gurion

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

David Ben-Gurion

The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.

David Ben-Gurion