Peter Malkin Quotes

Israel, Public Servant
May 27, 1927 – March, 1, 2005.

Peter Zvi Malkin (May 27, 1927 – March 1, 2005) was an Israeli secret agent and member of the Mossad intelligence agency. Malkin was part of the team that captured Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960 and brought him to Israel to stand trial.

Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'

Peter Malkin
- Eyes
Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother.

Peter Malkin
- Mother

Writing and Painting are the same for me.

Peter Malkin
- Writing
- Painting
I spent a lot of time in churches. If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if you're married. In a church, in a hundred years no one would ask.

Peter Malkin
- Time
- Alone
- Church
The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated.

Peter Malkin
- Animal
- Monster