We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
GOLDA MEIR
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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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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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’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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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.
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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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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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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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