The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
GOLDA MEIRBy 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?
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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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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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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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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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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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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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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.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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