It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
GOLDA MEIRThere will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I’m not what I’d like to be.
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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
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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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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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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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Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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