We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
GOLDA MEIRI can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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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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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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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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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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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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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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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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’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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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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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