How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
GOLDA MEIRMen are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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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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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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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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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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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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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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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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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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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 public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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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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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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.
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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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