There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
GOLDA MEIRThose who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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I don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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