The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
GOLDA MEIRWe can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
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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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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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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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 don’t want wars even when we win.
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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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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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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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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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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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