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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Golda Meir77 quotes“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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Golda MeirGolda Meir 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.
Golda MeirGolda Meir Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
Golda MeirGolda Meir Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
Golda MeirGolda Meir 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.
Golda MeirGolda Meir 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.
Golda MeirGolda Meir You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
Golda MeirGolda Meir To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Golda MeirGolda Meir The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
Golda MeirGolda Meir Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
Golda MeirGolda Meir 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.
Golda MeirGolda Meir This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
Golda MeirGolda Meir 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.
Golda MeirGolda Meir How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
Golda MeirGolda Meir My 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.
Golda MeirGolda Meir 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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