List of Theodor Herzl Quotes

The Jewish People Asked Nothing Of Its Sons Except Not To Be Denied. The World Is Grateful To Every Great Man When He Brings It Something; Only The Paternal Home Thanks The Son Who Brings Nothing But Himself.

Economic Distress, Political Pressure, And Social Obloquy Already Drive Us From Our Homes And From Our Graves. The Jews Are Already Constantly Shifting From Place To Place.

The Spirit In Which The Offer Was Made Must Of Necessity Contribute To Improving And Alleviating The Situation Of The Jewish People Without Our Renouncing One Iota Of The Great Principles Upon Which Our Movement Is Based.

What We Want Is To Make It Possible For Our Unfortunate People To Live A Life Of Industry For It Is By Steady Work Alone That We Hope For Our Physical And Moral Rehabilitation. For This Reason Above All We Have Undertaken To Rally Our People Around Our Ideal.

The Jews Had, As A Matter Of Fact, Long Been All Along The Most Ingenious Entrepreneurs. It Was Only Our Own Future That We Had Never Built Upon A Business Basis.

If Anyone Thinks That Jews Can Steal Into The Land Of Their Fathers, He Is Deceiving Either Himself Or Others. Nowhere Is The Coming Of Jews So Promptly Noted As In The Historic Home Of The Jews, For The Very Reason That It Is The Historic Home.

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

Realists Are, As A Rule, Only Men In The Rut Of Routine Who Are Incapable Of Transcending A Narrow Circle Of Antiquated Notions.

The Body Is A Marvelous Machine...a Chemical Laboratory, A Power-house. Every Movement, Voluntary Or Involuntary, Full Of Secrets And Marvels

Do You Know Out Of What The German Empire Arose? Out Of Dreams, Songs, Fantasies And Black-red-gold Ribbons? Bismarck Merely Shook The Tree That Fantasies Had Planted.

Dreams And Actions Are Not So Different As Usually Thought, As All Actions Of Men Are Founded Upon Dreams, And Their End - Is A Dream Too.

I Incline To An Aristocratic Republic. This Would Satisfy The Ambitious Spirit Among Our People. We Shall Learn From The Historic Mistakes Of Others In The Same Way As We Learn From Our Own; For We Are A Modern Nation And Wish To Be The Most Modern In The World.