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?
GOLDA MEIRIsrael itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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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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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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 who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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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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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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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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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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