A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
"Abba Eban" was an Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages.
In his career he was Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel/Foreign Affairs Minister, Ministry of Education (Israel)/Education Minister, Deputy leaders of Israel/Deputy Prime Minister, and List of Israeli ambassadors to the United States/ambassador to the United States and Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations/to the United Nations. He was also Vice President of the United Nations General Assembly and President of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous diplomats! More Abba Eban on Wikipedia.Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
Better to be disliked than pitied.
He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150?
Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today, and longed for them tomorrow.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
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