Gideon Levy quotes

“People who make use of all their senses in trying times are no less patriotic than those whose restraint is lost, whose senses are dimmed and whose brains are washed. This is also the time for the patriot to say: Enough.”
-- Gideon Levy

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“A real friend does not pick up the bill for an addict’s drugs: he packs the friend off to rehab instead. Today, only those who speak up against Israel’s policies – who denounce the occupation, the blockade, and the war – are the nation’s true friends.”
-- Gideon Levy

Source : "Gideon Levy: The Most Hated Man in Israel - and the Most Heroic". Interview with Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2010.

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“A whistle in the dark is still a whistle.”
-- Gideon Levy

Source : "Gideon Levy: The Most Hated Man in Israel - and the Most Heroic". Interview with Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2010.

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“Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.”

“Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”

“No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.”

“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.”

Source : Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.87, Rowman & Littlefield

“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”

“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”

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“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”

“To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.”

Source : "The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism". Lecture, August 04, 1921.

“Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped”

“All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.”

Source : Song: Ghost World, Album: Bachelor No. 2, 2000