We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
GOLDA MEIRThose that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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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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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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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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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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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