Moshe Katsav Quotes

All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality.

I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war.

And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the same things about the Palestinians, they don't want what we want. And I never bought it as a reporter and I don't buy it as a novelist. I think, you know, the sound of somebody crying for their lost child sounds the same.

The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

I think divorce doesn't necessarily bring out the best in people.

If Jews don't come to Nazareth, Arabs don't go to Afula. There is fear on both sides.

Everything in our world tends to be built on either/ors, and either/ors inevitably make enemies.

It's amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.

I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

Enemies,' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.

I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight, people who's trying to make that place worth living for both Jews and Palestinians.

The dissolution of a family, global crisis creates the massive fracture, not only in the Middle East but between America and Israel, between Europe and Israel, between American Jews and Israeli Jews. The distances seem to be widening wherever you look.

it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people

People ask me if I would shoot and kill people, and I don't think I would.

People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, appear neither true nor false to modern logicians- meaningless propositions that look meaningful to the linguistically naive.

I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another. I write about sad, sober, sometimes heart-breaking compromises.

I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies.

It is through our anger and hatred that we transform people into enemies.

People who speak the same language can hate one another as easily as can people who speak unrelated languages.

Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.

People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.

...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.

Doors are for those who lack enemies.

Shut up!" Eve yelled from somewhere upstairs. "Jackass!" "You know, when people say that, I just hear the word awesome.