Ahad Ha'am Quotes

#1. If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming

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#2. We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.

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#3. What is national freedom if not a people's inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?

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#4. The less their ability, the more their conceit.

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#5. This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.

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#6. More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.

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#7. Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.

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#8. [But if things continue the way they are] ... the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war ...

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#9. More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews.

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