There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
GOLDA MEIRBy 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?
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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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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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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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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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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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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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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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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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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