The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
GOLDA MEIRMy 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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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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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Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
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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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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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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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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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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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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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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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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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