The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
GOLDA MEIRYou can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
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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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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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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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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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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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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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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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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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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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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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