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Top 20 Abba Eban Quotes (2025 Update)

Abba Eban Quote: “Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.”

1. “Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.”

Abba Eban Quote: “A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.”

2. “A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.”

Abba Eban Quote: “History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”

3. “History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”

Abba Eban Quote: “Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”

4. “Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”

Abba Eban Quote: “Better to be disliked than pitied.”

5. “Better to be disliked than pitied.”

Abba Eban Quote: “If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.”

6. “If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.”

Abba Eban Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

Abba Eban Quote: “You can’t achieve anything without getting in someone’s way. You can’t be detached and effective.”

8. “You can’t achieve anything without getting in someone’s way. You can’t be detached and effective.”

Abba Eban Quote: “His ignorance is encyclopedic.”

9. “His ignorance is encyclopedic.”

Abba Eban Quote: “Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.”

10. “Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.”

Abba Eban Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

Abba Eban Quote: “A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.”

12. “A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.”

Abba Eban Quote: “Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.”

13. “Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.”

Abba Eban Quote: “Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People’s sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.”

14. “Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People’s sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.”

Abba Eban Quote: “Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.”

15. “Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.”

Abba Eban Quote: “It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.”

16. “It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.”

Abba Eban Quote: “Israel is not an aviary.”

17. “Israel is not an aviary.”

Abba Eban Quote: “The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.”

18. “The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.”

Abba Eban Quote: “You can’t achieve anything without getting in someone’s way.”

19. “You can’t achieve anything without getting in someone’s way.”

Abba Eban Quote: “A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.”

20. “A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.”

Abba Eban Quote: “Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man’s initiative.”

21. “Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man’s initiative.”

Abba Eban Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

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