Shavit Quotes

#1. While I regard the Nakba as an ongoing crime that needs to be prosecuted and reversed ... Shavit defends its necessity and lectures Palestinians trapped in squalid refugee camps to just get over it.

Max Blumenthal

#2. Traveling is not a hindrance for me; it's something I actually enjoy.

Cobi Jones

#3. An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.

Charles Bukowski

#4. It is depressing but not shocking to witness the liberal intelligentsia embrace Ari Shavit so enthusiastically. Shavit is someone who is as consistently wrong as Thomas Friedman on major issues, and at least as much a courtier of power.

Max Blumenthal

#5. Imagination is the voice of the daring.

Henry Miller

#6. The price of creation is never too high. the price of living with other people always is.

Charles Bukowski

#7. Better be unromantic than thoroughly used and still poor.

Sherry Thomas

#8. I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

Daniel Berrigan

#9. Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job.

Ken Blanchard

#10. An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

Samuel Alexander

#11. I feel completely safe in my house but all my friends are scared for me. And of course I can tell my parents panic a little. The best thing about living alone is being able to have my friends come over whenever.

Vanessa Hudgens

#12. Some promises are lies we never meant to tell.

Robin Maxwell

#13. returned to sow the valley. In the communal dining hall, they sing joyfully. They dance through the night, into the light of dawn.

Ari Shavit

#14. Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read ... This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future.

Daniel Gordis

#15. I had disagreements with all my neighbors about my dogs. I had a disagreement with myself about my dogs. They were noisy.

John McAfee

#16. and who compound that error by conflating their sense of truth

Bradley Shavit Artson

#17. Who said "ladies" don't use words like "fuck" and "cunt," or that one doesn't use them around "ladies"? Maybe not when you're having lunch with a lady, but when a lady's fucking, she's not having lunch.

Nancy Friday

#18. In 30 minutes, at high noon, more than 200 civilians are killed. Zionism carries out a massacre in the city of Lydda.

Ari Shavit

#19. They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence and demonstrate that they have reached political maturity.

Ari Shavit

#20. Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.

Mahatma Gandhi