Theodor Herzl
Theodor Herzl
Theodor Herzl, born Benjamin Ze'ev Herzl, also known in Hebrew as חוֹזֵה הַמְדִינָה, Chozeh HaMedinahwas an Austro-Hungarian journalist, playwright, political activist, and writer. He was one of the fathers of modern political Zionism. Herzl formed the World Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish migration to Palestine in an effort to form a Jewish state...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth2 May 1860
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Our salvation aiming to provide a home for the Jewish people, responds so perfectly to a universal need that it is bound to succeed in the end.
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I wrote walking, standing, lying down, on the street, at the table, at night when it roused me out of sleep... I know now, and was even aware of it throughout this entire period of turbulent productivity, that much of what I wrote was wild and fantastic.
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If you will it, it is no dream
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The Jews who will it shall achieve their State. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and in our own homes peacefully die. The world will be liberated by our freedom, enriched by our wealth, magnified by our greatness. And whatever we attempt there for our own benefit will redound mightily and beneficially to the good of all mankind.
dream ifs
If you will it, it is no dream; and if you do not will it, a dream it is and a dream it will stay
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If whole branches of Jews must be destroyed, it is worth it, as long as a Jewish state in Palestine is created.
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Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first, and become dreams in the end.
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It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.
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Were I to sum up the Basle Congress in a word- which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly- it would be this: 'At Basle, I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. If not in 5 years, certainly in 50, everyone will know it.'
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Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.