Elias Chacour Quotes

I thought, If only the whole nation of Israel—and the whole world—could understand that Jews and Palestinians can get along when they begin to treat each other with dignity.

Elias Chacour

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• Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Up
  • Same
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• I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Real
  • Think
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• There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Real
  • Humble
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• My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Want

• Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Show
  • Office
  • Dignity

• I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Time
  • Day
  • Dignity

• When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

  

  S. Ansky
  • Work
  • Literature
  • Jews

• There is a clear interest within ISIS to drag Israel into a war with them. If they do so, they will be able to paint Israel as having an alliance with the states fighting against them.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • War
  • Fighting
  • Israel

• Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Dignity

• We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Religious
  • Democracy
  • Drama

• Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience through their jobs, their lives, and their children. It's always been a treat to hear about others.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Children
  • Experience

• Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Treat
  • Judged
  • Weakest

• I have always been the same player, but Conte knows how to treat players, having played at the highest level himself.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Always
  • Player
  • Same

• The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Simple
  • Land
  • Israel

• Most aid agencies do not even consider proposals to treat mental health problems; those that do think of it as a minor player, overshadowed by the pressing need to save lives by treating physical illness.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Health
  • Player
  • Problems

• Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • New York
  • Paris
  • Jews

• You take away the money from Israel? No. That's something we can't do.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Money
  • You
  • Israel

• At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Night
  • Fire
  • Dignity

• I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Think
  • More
  • Jews

• What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Morality

• Our whole society controls how much you can drink, how many pills you can buy; we have controls we accept on everything else in this society - except guns. Those things are all acceptable to us. But with guns, most people will not even discuss restrictions.

  

  Mike Bouchard
  • Everything
  • Many
  • Controls

• That's your opportunity - to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Opportunity
  • Way
  • Unique

• Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Death
  • Head
  • Pure

• I thought, If only the whole nation of Israel—and the whole world—could understand that Jews and Palestinians can get along when they begin to treat each other with dignity.

  

  Elias Chacour
  • Treat
  • Dignity
  • Israel