Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
GOLDA MEIRHow 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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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’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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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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 can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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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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