We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
GOLDA MEIRI 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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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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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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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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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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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