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 say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
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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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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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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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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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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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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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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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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