Theodor Herzl Quotes

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• 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

  Theodor Herzl

  Dream, Ifs

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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.

  Theodor Herzl

  Country, Cheating, Believe

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

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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.

  Theodor Herzl

  Home, Men, Greatness

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

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

  Theodor Herzl

  Failure, Succeed, Colonization

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

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

  Theodor Herzl

  People, Demand, Platforms

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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.

  Theodor Herzl

  Land, Want, Blossoming

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

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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.

  Theodor Herzl

  Dream, Men, Thinking

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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.'

  Theodor Herzl

  Laughter, Israel, Years

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• I will give you my definition of a nation, and you can add the adjective 'Jewish.' A Nation is, in my mind, an historical group of men of a recognizable cohesion held together by a common enemy. Then, if you add to that the word 'Jewish' you have what I understand to be the Jewish nation.

  Theodor Herzl

  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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• If you will it, it is no dream

  Theodor Herzl

  Dream, Human Nature, Ifs

  Altneuland epigraph (1902)

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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.

  Theodor Herzl

  Strong, Race, Numbers

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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.

  Theodor Herzl

  Country, Israel, Trying

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

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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.

  Theodor Herzl

  Believe, Hatred, Rude

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• The wealth of a country is its working people.

  Theodor Herzl

  Country, People, Wealth

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

  Theodor Herzl

  Iron, Palestine, Seeing

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

  Theodor Herzl

  Law, Land, Jew

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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

  Theodor Herzl

  Attitude, Father, Fate

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

  Theodor Herzl

  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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• 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.

  Theodor Herzl

  Believe, Land, People

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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.

  Theodor Herzl

  Country, Hate, Humanity

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

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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.

  Theodor Herzl

  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.

  Theodor Herzl

  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.

  Theodor Herzl

  Good Life, Men, Example

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