The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
GOLDA MEIRThere was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I’m not what I’d like to be.
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Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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