The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
GOLDA MEIR
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
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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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I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
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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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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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