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.
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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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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’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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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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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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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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I 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.
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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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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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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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