document · Speech
Yitzhak Rabin — Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, Oslo, 10 December 1994
English 
Israel 1994-12-10
Politician: Yitzhak Rabin
Original source: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1994/rabin/lecture/
Content
There is only one radical means of sanctifying human lives. Not armored plating, or tanks, or planes, or concrete fortifications. The one radical solution is peace.
[… …] To preserve the Sanctity of Life, we must sometimes risk it. Sometimes there is no other way to defend our citizens than to fight for their lives, for their safety and sovereignty. This is the creed of every democratic state. [… …] In the State of Israel […] we have always viewed the Sanctity of Life as a supreme value. We have gone to war only when a fearful sword was poised to cut us down.
We are in the midst of building the peace. [… …] We will pursue the course of peace with determination and fortitude. We will not let up. We will not give in. Peace will triumph over all our enemies, because the alternative is grim for us all. And we will prevail.
[… …] I am here as the emissary of Jerusalem […] which has always been, and is today, the eternal capital of the State of Israel and the heart of the Jewish people […]. With me here are five million citizens of Israel – Jews and Arabs, Druze and Circassians – five million hearts beating for peace.
I wish to thank our partners – the Egyptians, Jordanians, Palestinians, and the Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Mr. Yasser Arafat, with whom we share this Nobel Prize – who have chosen the path of peace and are writing a new page in the annals of the Middle East. How to cite this document
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(Rabin, 1994) Rabin, Y.. (1994). Yitzhak Rabin — Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, Oslo, 10 December 1994. nobelprize.org. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1994/rabin/lecture/
Rabin, Yitzhak. 1994. "Yitzhak Rabin — Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, Oslo, 10 December 1994." nobelprize.org. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1994/rabin/lecture/.
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