Golda Meir quotes - page 3

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. (Golda Meir)
Those nuts that burn their bras and walk around all disheveled and hate men? They're crazy. Crazy. View quote
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What person with any sense likes himself? I know myself too well to like myself. View quote
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I want to see a film, they send the Israeli army reserves to escort me! What kind of life is this? View quote
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There were no such thing as Palestinians. View quote
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When peace comes, we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. View quote
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When were Palestinians born? What was all of this area before the First World War when Britain got the Mandate over Palestine? What is Palestine, then? Palestine was then the area between the Mediterranean and the Iraqian border. Eastern West Bank was Palestine. I am a Palestinian, from 1921 and 1948, I carried a Palestinian passport. There was no such thing in this area as Jews, and Arabs, and Palestinians, There were Jews and Arabs. View quote
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I prefer to stay alive and be criticized than be sympathized. View quote
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In Israel, we read from right to left. View quote
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I am also grateful that I live in a country whose people have learned how to go on living in a sea of hatred without hating those who want to destroy them and without abandoning their own vision of peace. To have learned this is a great art, the prescription for which is not written down anywhere. It is part of our way of life in Israel. Finally, I wish to say that from the time I came to Palestine as a young woman, we have been forced to choose between what is more dangerous and what is less dangerous for us. At times we have all been tempted to give in to various pressures and to accept proposals that might guarantee us a little quiet for a few months, or maybe even for a few years, but that could only lead us eventually into even greater peril. View quote
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I thought that a Jewish state would be free of the evils afflicting other societies: theft, murder, prostitution... But now we have them all. And that's a thing that cuts to the heart ... (Golda Meir)
We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us... View quote
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty. View quote
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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children. View quote
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You can't improve on saying nothing. View quote
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values. View quote
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent. View quote
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It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to leave. I entered the houses, there were houses where the coffee and pita bread were left on the table, and I could not avoid [thinking] that this, indeed, had been the picture in many Jewish towns [i.e., in Europe, during World War II]. View quote
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It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to leave. View quote
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself. View quote
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We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative. The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight. (Golda Meir)
There were no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War, and then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist. View quote
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We owe a responsibility not only to those who are in Israel but also to those generations that are no more, to those millions who have died within our lifetime, to Jews all over the world, and to generations of Jews to come. We hate war. We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown, and when strawberries bloom in Israel. View quote
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