How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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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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 can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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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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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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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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Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
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This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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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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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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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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