The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
GOLDA MEIRGlorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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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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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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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 modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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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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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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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