Top 50 Ariel Sharon Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “My mood altered and the pain turned to rage.”

— Ariel Sharon

2. “It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands.”

— Ariel Sharon

3. “What you see from here is not what you see from there.”

— Ariel Sharon

4. “I don’t care what the American people think, I own the congress!”

— Ariel Sharon

5. “I don’t mind if after the job is done you put me in front of a Nuremberg Trial and then jail me for life. Hang me if you want, as a war criminal. What you don’t understand is that the dirty work of Zionism is not finished yet, far from it.”

— Ariel Sharon

6. “I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him.”

— Ariel Sharon

7. “Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to have everyone hate us, to pull the rug from underneath the feet of the Diaspora Jews, so that they will be forced to run to us crying. Even if it means blowing up one or two synagogues here and there, I don’t care.”

— Ariel Sharon

8. “Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.”

— Ariel Sharon

9. “It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us.”

— Ariel Sharon

10. “Moshe Dayan would wake up with a hundred ideas. Of them ninety-five were dangerous; three more had to be rejected; the remaining two, however, were brilliant.”

— Ariel Sharon

11. “I am ready to compromise, but there is one thing I won’t compromise on: the safety of the Israeli people.”

— Ariel Sharon

12. “I cannot deny that I have doubts, reservations and fears. However, I have come to the conclusion that in the present regional and international reality, Israel must act with courage to accept the political plan which I described.”

— Ariel Sharon

13. “Ariel Sharon is a man of peace.”

— Ariel Sharon

14. “Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches.”

— Ariel Sharon

15. “Israel is a wonderful country. It’s a beautiful country. It is ours. But it is a country with 10,000 problems that we have to solve and deal.”

— Ariel Sharon

16. “Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.”

— Ariel Sharon

17. “Aliyah is the central goal of the State of Israel.”

— Ariel Sharon

18. “For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.”

— Ariel Sharon

19. “I am 73 years old. I’ve seen everything. I’ve met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I’ve been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace.”

— Ariel Sharon

20. “You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation – to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians.”

— Ariel Sharon

21. “I would like to be on the farm. To ride the horses. To watch the cattle, and the plantations, and the beautiful vegetables that my sons are growing there. I would like it. I am one of those who do not have to worry about what I am doing later. I love the fields.”

— Ariel Sharon

22. “We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.”

— Ariel Sharon

23. “And Israel, being a tiny, small country, of course has interest to strengthen – we have interest to strengthen our relations with other countries, mostly countries that were hostile for many, many years.”

— Ariel Sharon

24. “On April 19 1943, the Bermuda conference gathered, with the participation of representatives from Britain and the United States, in order to discuss saving the Jews of Europe. In fact, the participants did everything in their power to avoid dealing with the problem.”

— Ariel Sharon

25. “When I was born here on one of the farms in Israel, my childhood, I never thought for one day that we will not be living together with Arabs.”

— Ariel Sharon

26. “We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state.”

— Ariel Sharon

27. “Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.”

— Ariel Sharon

28. “As long as I’m needed. I’ll be ready to serve. I look forward with optimism. We need the Jews here. Move to Israel! Move to Israel!”

— Ariel Sharon

29. “As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the Jewish people. We’re not going to accept any decision by anybody else about security of the State of Israel. It is our role and only our role.”

— Ariel Sharon

30. “A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.”

— Ariel Sharon

31. “Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I’m ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that’s the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time.”

— Ariel Sharon

32. “If there will be a serious Palestinian prime minister who makes a 100 percent effort to end terrorism, then we can have peace. Each side has to take steps. If terror continues, there will not be an independent Palestinian state. Israel will not accept it, if terror continues.”

— Ariel Sharon

33. “My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.”

— Ariel Sharon

34. “We believe only in deeds and acts and not in declarations. We are fed up with all those declarations, promises...”

— Ariel Sharon

35. “Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.”

— Ariel Sharon

36. “I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.”

— Ariel Sharon

37. “One must remember that the Jews have one, tiny country, the only place they have the right and capability to defend themselves by themselves. And it is our duty and my responsibility to see that we will never compromise about that.”

— Ariel Sharon

38. “To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.”

— Ariel Sharon

39. “The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.”

— Ariel Sharon

40. “I have in the past declared that in order to achieve a real, just and durable peace, I would be willing to make painful compromises. But we cannot make any compromise on the security of our citizens and their right to live without the threat of terrorism and violence.”

— Ariel Sharon

41. “I don’t think I have accomplished what I still have to accomplish. There is one thing that I would like to do, and that’s to bring security and peace to the Jewish people.”

— Ariel Sharon

42. “As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.”

— Ariel Sharon

43. “But there’s one thing we are not going to compromise at all: when it comes to security of Israeli citizens and the State of Israel, there are not going to be any compromises – not now and not in the future.”

— Ariel Sharon

44. “Close to 80 percent of all terrorist activity in Samaria was directed and financed either by Hizbullah or the Iranians. Iran continues to increase its involvement in terror attacks inside Israel, particularly through a small but radical minority of Israeli Arabs which Iran supports and directs.”

— Ariel Sharon

45. “I believe that the Jewish state will exist forever.”

— Ariel Sharon

46. “The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that’s what gave me the strength.”

— Ariel Sharon

47. “Both during the elections and as Prime Minister, I have repeatedly and publicly said that I support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.”

— Ariel Sharon

48. “Legitimate steps of self-defence which Israel takes in its war against Palestinian terror – actions which any sovereign state is obligated to undertake to ensure the security of its citizens – are presented by those who hate Israel as aggressive, Nazi-like steps.”

— Ariel Sharon

49. “I am the last person who would divide Jerusalem. I have said this many times. I don’t plan to discuss any division of Jerusalem.”

— Ariel Sharon

50. “We do not build new Jewish communities in Samaria, Judea and Gaza. The United States has never accepted our building of communities or of the fence. Yet, I’ve managed to develop relations between Israel and the United States even though President Bush never supported settlements.”

— Ariel Sharon