How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
GOLDA MEIRMen 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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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Women’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.
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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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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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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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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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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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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 not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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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