Originál: (en) History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Zdroj: [Skousen, W. Cleon, Fantastic Victory, C&J Investments, 122, angličtina, 978-0-91055-851-8]
Abba Eban: 9 citátů11 lajků
Abba Eban nejznámější citáty
„Shoda názorů znamená, že všichni společně prohlásí to, čemu sám za sebe nikdo nevěří.“
Chybí zdroj
Originál: (en) Consensus means that all together claim it for himself what no one believes.
„Nikdy nepromarní příležitost promarnit příležitost.“
o arabských vůdcích <br class="br">Zdroj: Lidovky.cz Lekce z Afriky. [online]. [Cit.2008-08-22]. Dostupné online http://www.lidovky.cz/lekce-z-afriky-0fn-/ln_nazory.asp?c=A071210_080758_ln_nazory_svo.
Abba Eban: Citáty anglicky
Comment about the United Nations General Assembly, as quoted in The Guardian (3 February 2004) http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1137594,00.html.
Speech in London (16 December 1970); as quoted in The Times [London] (17 December 1970) and in Great Jewish Quotations (1996) by Alfred J. Kolatch, p. 115.
“The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”
As quoted in The Jerusalem Post (18 November 2002) http://www.factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000491.html; often misquoted as "Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." The quote is attributed to Abba Eban after the Geneva Peace Conference http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/geneva.html with Arab countries (21 December 1973).
Abba Eban wrote "Israel's Dilemmas: An Opportunity Squandered" in Stephen J. Roth, ed. "The Impact of the Six-Day War: A Twenty-Year Assessment".
