We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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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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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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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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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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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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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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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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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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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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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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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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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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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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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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