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.
GOLDA MEIRWe don’t want wars even when we win.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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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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I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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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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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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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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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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