46 Yair Lapid Quotes for You to Enjoy

Yair Lapid

Israeli Politician

Born: Nov 5, 1963

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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual. Yair Lapid

In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness. Yair Lapid

Politics Crime Weakness Only Showing

The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor. Yair Lapid

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Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet. Yair Lapid

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The Internet, Facebook, synagogue pamphlets, and the plethora of TV channels and cellular networks in our lives increasingly blur the boundary between the public and private sphere. Yair Lapid

Facebook Internet Increasingly Channels Synagogue Our Our Lives Sphere TV Networks Between Boundary Private Cellular Blur Public Lives

My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children. Yair Lapid

Education Great Memory Will Collective Group Believe Jewish State Great Believer State Fact Part Pass Am Israel Tradition Greatly Human Children Certainly Believer Receive Need Jewish

I'm not particularly fond of Shoah jokes, yet there is one I cannot forget: Why was Auschwitz an optimistic place? Because all the pessimists were already in New York by then. Yair Lapid

Jokes Fond New Particularly Because Were Auschwitz Optimistic Forget York New York Cannot Place Then Pessimists Why

Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy. Yair Lapid

Democracy Women Society Jews Arab Features Apartheid Homosexuals Christians

Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism? Yair Lapid

Time Terrorism Remember Opportunities State Had Real Revert Establish Anyone Preferred Each Each Time Why Palestinians Four

Does the global Left - as well as the Israeli Left - truly not care about the horrific Taliban regime, the terrible oppression of women in Gulf states, and the mass hanging festivals in Iran? Yair Lapid

Yeshivas barely teach any Bible, only Talmud. Yair Lapid

Bible Only Talmud Any Barely Teach

The rabbis and their wives may say whatever they wish in private conversations. I may not like their views, but a person is allowed to say anything in his or her own home. Yair Lapid

Home Wish Whatever Own Say Allowed Like Wives Private His Person May Anything Conversations Views Her

Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot. Yair Lapid

Idiot Johnson Lee

Quite a few people feel uncomfortable when faced with the claim that the Jews are the world's smartest people. In our politically correct era, one is not expected to argue that one group within humanity has an advantage over all the others. Yair Lapid

Humanity People World Few Group Jews Others Our Correct Claim Faced Uncomfortable Argue Advantage Feel Smartest Over Within Era Expected Few People Quite Politically Politically Correct

An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of 'dilemma' is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear. Yair Lapid

Me Old Dilemma Once Mine Favor Definition Statistical Clear Economist Greater Because Trade Answer Friend Against Explained Old Friend Gap

Facts cannot be replaced by opinion. Yair Lapid

Facts Opinion Replaced Cannot

The settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read the settlers' publications, you think that the leftists are everywhere: The leftists infiltrate the government, the leftists run the Defense Ministry, the leftists dominate the legal establishment, and the leftists control the media, of course. Yair Lapid

Government You Legal People Seriously Control Think Defense Settlers Everywhere Run Ministry Only Take Know Read Course Israel Left Dominate Infiltrate Establishment Who Media Publications

At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it. Yair Lapid

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Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it. Yair Lapid

Life Truth People World Try Kind Find See Some Attempt Head Look Intellectuals Manage Cannot Create Who

If, for 2,000 years, you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you're completely different than them, ultimately they'll believe you. Yair Lapid

God You Celebrate Insist Believe Everyone Top Telling Dress Dress-Up Years Ultimately Up Than Different Holidays Them Differently

Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem. Yair Lapid

Walk Down Security Citizens Instead Personal Afraid Jerusalem Street

Netanyahu needs to stand before the Israeli public and say, 'I failed.' Yair Lapid

Needs Before Say Netanyahu Failed Israeli Public Stand

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