Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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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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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There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
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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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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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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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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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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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Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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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’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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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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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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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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