Theodor Herzl Short Quotes

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In reference to the area of the Jewish state: From the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates.

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Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man's greatest efforts.

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The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.

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Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first, and become dreams in the end.

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It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.

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Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions.

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The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.

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Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.

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Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.

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Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.

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But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.

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But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain.

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When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; and at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.

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