We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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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 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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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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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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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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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