How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
GOLDA MEIRIt is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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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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Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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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 who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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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 are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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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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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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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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