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.
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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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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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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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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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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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
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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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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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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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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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