We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
GOLDA MEIROld age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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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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