Theodor Herzl Quotes

• If whole branches of Jews must be destroyed, it is worth it, as long as a Jewish state in Palestine is created.

  Theodor Herzl

  Long, Branches, States

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• If you will it, it is no dream; and if you do not will it, a dream it is and a dream it will stay

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  Dream, Ifs

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• The Jews who will it shall achieve their State. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and in our own homes peacefully die. The world will be liberated by our freedom, enriched by our wealth, magnified by our greatness. And whatever we attempt there for our own benefit will redound mightily and beneficially to the good of all mankind.

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  Home, Men, Greatness

  Theodor Herzl, Ludwig Lewisohn (1955). “Theodor Herzl: a portrait for this age”

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• We must expropriate gently the private property on the state assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it employment in our country. The property owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discretely and circumspectly. Let the owners of the immoveable property believe that they are cheating us, selling us things for more than they are worth. But we are not going to sell them anything back.

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  Country, Cheating, Believe

  Theodor Herzl (1997). “The Jews' State: A Critical English Translation”, p.91, Jason Aronson, Incorporated

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• Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable.

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  People, Demand, Platforms

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• Es cierto que aspiramos a nuestra antigua tierra. Pero lo que queremos en esa antigua tierra es un nuevo florecimiento del espíritu judío.

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  Land, Want, Blossoming

  Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”

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• Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

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  Failure, Succeed, Colonization

  Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”

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• Were I to sum up the Basle Congress in a word- which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly- it would be this: 'At Basle, I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. If not in 5 years, certainly in 50, everyone will know it.'

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  Laughter, Israel, Years

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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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  Sueño, Hombres, Pensamiento

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• If you will it, it is no dream

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  Dream, Human Nature, Ifs

  Altneuland epigraph (1902)

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• Le daré mi definición de nación, y usted puede añadir el adjetivo "judía". Una nación es, en mi opinión, un grupo histórico de hombres de una cohesión reconocible que se mantienen unidos por un enemigo común. Entonces, si a eso le añades la palabra 'judío' tienes lo que yo entiendo que es la nación judía.

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  Men, Giving, Historical

  Theodor Herzl (2014). “The Jewish State: with 2014 Foreword by Jerold S. Auerbach”, p.46, Quid Pro Books

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• The Jewish question exists wherever the Jews live, however small their number. Where it does not exist it is imported by Jew immigrants. We naturally go where we are not persecuted, and, still persecution is the result of our appearance...By persecution we cannot be exterminated...the strong Jews turn proudly to their race when persecution bursts out. Entire branches of Judaism may disappear, break away; the tree lives.

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  Strong, Race, Numbers

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• I believe I understand anti-Semitism which is a very complex movement. I see it as a Jew, but without hatred or fear. I recognize what is anti-Semitism is rude jesting, vulgar jealousy of métier, hereditary prejudice; but also what can be considered as in fact legitimate defence.

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  Believe, Hatred, Rude

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• We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country .... expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.

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  Country, Israel, Trying

  Theodor Herzl (1997). “The Jews' State: A Critical English Translation”, p.91, Jason Aronson, Incorporated

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• The wealth of a country is its working people.

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  Country, People, Wealth

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• We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow.

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  Believe, Land, People

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• I prefer being penetrated by iron to seeing Palestine is loose.

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  Iron, Palestine, Seeing

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

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  Beautiful, Dream, Men

  Theodor Herzl (2015). “A Jewish State: Proposal of a modern solution for the Jewish question”, p.62, BoD – Books on Demand

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• When I remember thee in days to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with pleasure. The musty deposits of 2,000 years of inhumanity, intolerance, and uncleanliness lie in the foul-smelling alleys... The amiable dreamer of Nazareth has only contributed to increasing the hatred... What superstition and fanaticism on every side!

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  Lying, Years, Hatred

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• Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us.

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  Country, Hate, Humanity

  Theodor Herzl (1962). “The diaries of Theodor Herzl”

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• It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable

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  Attitude, Father, Fate

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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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  Talking, Years, Risk

  Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”

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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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  Law, Requirements, Firsts

  Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”

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• Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.

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  Good Life, Men, Example

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

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  Party, Purses, Revolutionary

  Theodor Herzl (2006). “The Jewish State”, p.23, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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