We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
GOLDA MEIRMy dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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I don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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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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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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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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