The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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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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I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
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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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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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 was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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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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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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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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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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