Quotes about Time by Shimon Peres

Shimon Peres Israeli statesman

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.

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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...

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I joined the army as a private, I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.

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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.

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On the other hand, they wanted to tax the windfalls or profits of the stock exchange. This time, I took the position of the rightists against it.

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There was one occasion when I was very young eight years or seven years old that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place.

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