“Your insult by the ungodliness and injustice in the land is a force.”

“You must build and develop a greater force on the inside of you, in this way, you will be able to speak and stand against ungodliness and injustice in the land.”

“Actually, everyone, in one way or the other is being insulted by ungodliness and injustice, be it racial injustice, inequality, economic injustice, and the spread and campaign of ungodliness sweeping the land.”

“The leaders have the responsibility to protect and hold in high esteem the law and virtues of the land.”

“The language of a river inscribesover eyes of moths and fliesthe navel of the land is a lake.”

“it was too loud for hopeit was too silent for victory.”

“Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay not just ‘the occupation’ but the whole idea of a separate state for Jews in Palestine. Take away the divine warrant for the Holy Land and where were you, and what were you? Just another land-thief like the Turks or the British, except that in this case you wanted the land without the people. And the original Zionist slogan—’a land without a people for a people without a land’—disclosed its own negation when I saw the densely populated Arab towns dwelling sullenly under Jewish tutelage. You want irony? How about Jews becoming colonizers at just the moment when other Europeans had given up on the idea?”

“I NAME THIS LAND TOMORROW, FOR IT SHALL LAST FOREVERMORE!”

“In no man’s land, alien is the queen.”

“Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect.”