No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.
Menachem BeginRead
We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate.
Interpretation
Existence itself is validation enough for one's legitimacy.
This quote by Menachem Begin asserts that inherent existence or being is sufficient to establish legitimacy, without the need for external validation. It emphasizes the idea that simply existing as an individual or entity affirms one's right to recognition and respect, independent of societal approval or conventions.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about self-acceptance and the value of individuality.
No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.
I come to Jerusalem. There, the sky is blue and memory becomes clear.
My colleagues and I have gone in the footsteps of our predecessors since the very first day we were called by our people to care for their future. We went any place, we looked for any avenue, we made any effort to bring about negotiations between Israel and its neighbors, negotiations without which peace remains an abstract desire.
Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And forever.
In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transformed. Throughout its lands there will be freedom of movement of people, of ideas, of goods.
I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.
The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result is not "the Word of God" in the sense that every passage in itself, gives impeccable science or history. It carries the Word of God.
I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.
Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.
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