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.
GOLDA 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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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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.
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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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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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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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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 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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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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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.
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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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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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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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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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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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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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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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