We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is going around i…

- Ahad Ha'am

If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming

- Ahad Ha'am

Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.

- Ahad Ha'am

[But if things continue the way they are] ...the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to …

- Ahad Ha'am

What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?

- Ahad Ha'am

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

- Ahad Ha'am

More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.

- Ahad Ha'am

More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews.

- Ahad Ha'am

The right place for the League of Nations is not Geneva or the Hague, Ascher Ginsberg has dreamed of a Temple on Mount Zion where the representatives…

- Ahad Ha'am