Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

- Abba Eban

Better to be disliked than pitied.

- Abba Eban

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.

- Abba Eban

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 a…

- Abba Eban

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

- Abba Eban

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

- Abba Eban

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

- Abba Eban

Israel is not an aviary.

- Abba Eban

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective.

- Abba Eban