The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
GOLDA MEIRMen are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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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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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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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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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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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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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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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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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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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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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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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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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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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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