The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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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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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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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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By 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?
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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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