Top 36 Vanunu Quotes
#1. I have sacrificed my freedom and risked my life in order to expose the danger of nuclear weapons which threatens this whole region. I acted on behalf of all citizens and all of humanity.
Mordechai Vanunu
#2. But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy.
Mordechai Vanunu
#4. If they will let me go, I would leave Israel immediately. I would like to see the world, to exercise my freedom.
Mordechai Vanunu
#5. I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.
Mordechai Vanunu
#6. His words made me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscle like any other. It can hurt.
Nicola Yoon
#8. If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.
Saint Patrick
#9. The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200.
Mordechai Vanunu
#10. We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons.
Mordechai Vanunu
#11. I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building.
Mordechai Vanunu
#12. People read things into my commercials that don't even exist.
Calvin Klein
#14. Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses.
Nadia Boulanger
#15. So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel.
Mordechai Vanunu
#16. The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.
Tom Robbins
#17. We do not know which irresponsible Israeli prime minister will take office and decide to use nuclear weapons in the struggle against neighboring Arab countries. What has already been exposed about the weapons Israel is holding can destroy the region and kill millions.
Mordechai Vanunu
#18. It's not only about the rap lyric. Today, people are buying you as a person.
Theophilus London
#19. My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb.
Mordechai Vanunu
#20. Nothing is so intimately a part of a man as his library. It contains just what the possessor wants to look at most often, and comes to form his window or gateway to the larger cosmos.
H.P. Lovecraft
#21. From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British.
Mordechai Vanunu
#22. An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.
Arthur Smith
#23. Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people.
Mordechai Vanunu
#24. That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.
Mordechai Vanunu
#25. Everyone knows that Israel has nuclear weapons, but no one is talking about it. The world doesn't want nuclear weapons - not in Israel, not in the Middle East and not anywhere in the world.
Mordechai Vanunu
#26. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
G.K. Chesterton
#27. I have no interest in Israeli citizenship ... Israel does not want me, nor do I want Israel.
Mordechai Vanunu
#28. I was allowed to meet my family every two weeks for a half hour.
Mordechai Vanunu
#29. And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb.
Mordechai Vanunu
#30. I am asking the state of Israel to revoke my citizenship. This wish for revocation of citizenship is neither new nor recent. Now, however, it is supported by the new Revocation of Citizenship Law.
Mordechai Vanunu
#31. I worked every day there, so I knew all the details. But I needed only some proof. So the proof was photos.
Mordechai Vanunu
#32. I also was producing, working on other materials for the hydrogen bomb. They call it lithium-6 and tritium. I was working on these and the only use for lithium-6 is the hydrogen bomb.
Mordechai Vanunu
#33. I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.
Mordechai Vanunu
#34. All I want to do is to go to America, get married and start a new life.
Mordechai Vanunu
#35. But on the other side I am very glad that I can at least enjoy some freedom.
Mordechai Vanunu
#36. I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.
Benjamin Franklin
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
