By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
GOLDA MEIRI’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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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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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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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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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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I don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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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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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
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