We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
GOLDA MEIRArab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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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 can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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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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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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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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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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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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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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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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