Zubin Mehta Quotes

We feel pain for every Syrian victim.

Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other.

I am not a supporter of Israel's military policy, let alone any kind of Zionist.

Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist.

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

The BDS movement attempts to undermine and destabilize Israel, our greatest ally in the Middle East.

People in Cuba are victims.

Just watching Israel bombarding Palestine and Palestine sending one or two little rockets over to Israel - it's just too sad for words.

I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me.

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

I spent three and a half years writing the novel 'Chang & Eng,' about the conjoined brothers for whom the term 'Siamese twins' was contrived, and when I think of these afflicted people, my only emotion is one of profound sympathy.

Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.

Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

Israel does not care about the international public opinion.

When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.

We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain.

Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

I like someone who's suffered from both sides.

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.