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.
GOLDA MEIRWe Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I’m not what I’d like to be.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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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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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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 Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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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