We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
GOLDA MEIRIt is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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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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There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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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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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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