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.
GOLDA MEIRMen are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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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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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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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
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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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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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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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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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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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