The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
GOLDA MEIRThe world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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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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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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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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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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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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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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