Moshe Sharett Quotes & Sayings

“So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.”

“I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered.”

“Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.”

“We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.”

“I am against intervention by a foreign power against us.”

“Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.”

“Arabs respect only the language of force.”

“A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.”

“Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.”

“As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets.”