The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
GOLDA MEIRI never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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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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