We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
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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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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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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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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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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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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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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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