The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
GOLDA MEIRThe only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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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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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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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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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
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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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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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