The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
GOLDA MEIRThere is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.
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It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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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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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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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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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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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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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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