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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
Golda Meir
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Golda Meir
Age: 80 †
Born: 1898
Born: May 3
Died: 1978
Died: December 8
Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Politician
Teacher
Kiev
Golda Meyerson
Golda Mabovich
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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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It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a people that has maintained its distinct identity for more than 2,000 years, with all the pain and torment that has been inflicted upon it.
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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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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs we have no place to go.
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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...
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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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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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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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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Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.
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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'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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You can't improve on saying nothing.
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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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