You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
Abba Eban

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
Abba Eban

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
Abba Eban

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
Abba Eban

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
Abba Eban

Better to be disliked than pitied.
Abba Eban

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
Abba Eban