I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
GOLDA MEIRWomen’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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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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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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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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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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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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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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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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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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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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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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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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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