QUOTES

Quotes by Abba Eban

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely only after they have exhausted all other alternatives."
- Abba Eban
"His ignorance is encyclopedic."
- Abba Eban
"A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually."
- Abba Eban
"If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vot..."
- Abba Eban
"You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way."
- Abba Eban
"I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unc..."
- Abba Eban
"Better to be disliked than pitied."
- Abba Eban
"It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say."
- Abba Eban
"Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals."
- Abba Eban