Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
GOLDA MEIRIf only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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I 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.
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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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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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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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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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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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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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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