There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
GOLDA MEIRThere’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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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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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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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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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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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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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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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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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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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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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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