You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea. Shimon Peres More Quotes by Shimon Peres More Quotes From Shimon Peres The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money. Shimon Peres giving ideas thinking It's a morality that keeps humans human. Shimon Peres morality humans Without freedom you cannot have real peace. Shimon Peres real Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim. Shimon Peres swimming israel years You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress. Shimon Peres husband rights giving In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable. Shimon Peres democracy media today Democracy wants to win by reason, not by arms or by any other material damage, because, look, I don't have to remind you that I am totally for peace. It is my greatest dream. It was and will remain so. Shimon Peres democracy dream winning The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control. Shimon Peres internet communication space We have to take care about nature as much as nature is taking care about us. Nature is very kind with us. And if you want to enjoy the gifts of nature and the promises of nature, we have to defer to nature and its needs, its rules, its norms. Shimon Peres environmental promise needs Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level. Shimon Peres levels easy people I've worked with 10 presidents. It's a record. I worked with Republicans and Democrats. All of them when it came to Israel were, movingly, friendly. From Truman, who was the first to recognize Israel 11 minutes after the U.N. resolution, to Obama. When it comes to the major issues of security and strategy, we are together, completely. Shimon Peres issues israel friendly I am leaving the office but am not leaving the battle for peace. Shimon Peres leaving battle office You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror. Shimon Peres invention mirrors civilization The history of Israel is divided into two parts. One, under attack that we have had to defend ourselves. When you defend yourself your thinking is totally different from when you want to make peace. So under attack you behave like if you want a hawk, when peace comes you become a dove. Shimon Peres israel two thinking Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable. Shimon Peres democracy witty funny The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as science and information are the potential friends of all nations. Classical diplomacy and strategy were aimed at identifying enemies and confronting them. Now they have to identify dangers, global or local, and tackle them before they become disasters. Shimon Peres drug religious science Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live. Shimon Peres ocean opportunity mean One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do. Shimon Peres tourism branches important We are the only country who is an ally of the United States that never asked for American soldiers. Shimon Peres allies soldier country I do not know anybody that is threatening Iran. It is a safe country. Shimon Peres iran safe country
