David Ben-Gurion Quotes

We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.

Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

They put aside the talk of peace and instead acted for peace.

Stop the fighting and find the middle ground.

Talk brings opponents together.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

It had always been one of my convictions that Jews and Arabs could live together. Even as a child it never occurred to me that Jews might someday be living in Israel without Arabs, or separated from Arabs. On the contrary, for me it had always seemed perfectly normal for the two people to live and work side by side. That is the nature of life here and it always will be.... though Israel is a Jewish nation, it is, of course, not only a Jewish nation...

Israel will never surrender to hatred.

The majority of Jews and Arabs want to get along. Don't let a few bad apples ruin it for everyone.

There's never been an entertainer that can take two warring parties and have both presidents stand on the stage and hold hands.

The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates, may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.

I want a world of peace. I'm not interested in bombs. I'm not interested in wars. I'm interested in peace.

My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.