We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
GOLDA MEIRBeing seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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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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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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 was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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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.
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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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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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