After my activities in the youth movement I returned to the kibbutz, but at that time, the party was already split between young and old.
Quote by Shimon Peres about activity, youth, old, olderness, time
Quotes by Shimon Peres
25 quotes by Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres - israeli statesman
Also called: Szymon Perski.
Was born on 02 aug 1923.
Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about...
Quote by Shimon Peres about love, charm, criticism, wife, thinking, time
He became a prisoner of the Germans, he escaped, he was condemned to death. He was saved by a priest at the last moment.
Quote by Shimon Peres about war, prison, death, moment
He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read, he was my personal mentor.
Quote by Shimon Peres about literature
He was the editor of our paper, he created the publishing house in Hebrew, he was I wouldn't say the guru but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.
Quote by Shimon Peres about teachers, youth, home, house, man
I have a brother younger than me, my mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.
Quote by Shimon Peres about family, mother
I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.
Quote by Shimon Peres about teaching, students, literature, interest, school, history, happiness, good, good luck
I thought if I should be a colonel or a general, there would always be somebody above me, but if I should be a soldier, nobody will command me.
Quote by Shimon Peres about thinking
I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.
Quote by Shimon Peres about teaching
I worked with a group of people who argued day and night professors, officials, the Minister of Finance but there were decisions that I had to make.
Quote by Shimon Peres about work, night, day, people
In my family, we have had members of the Likud and members of the left. There was a very vivid argument going on all the time.
Quote by Shimon Peres about family, time
It was the dream, I went to a Hebrew school, at our home, we spoke three languages: Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian.
Quote by Shimon Peres about dream, school, home
Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.
Quote by Shimon Peres about heads, problems, things, man
Partly, because I became in charge of the Ministry of Defense when I was 29 years old, and my parents were still alive, both my father and my mother.
Quote by Shimon Peres about parents, mother, old, olderness
Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
Quote by Shimon Peres about television, dictatorship, democracy, impossible
That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion, then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between...
Quote by Shimon Peres about war, teaching, peace, real estate, man
