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.
There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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.
We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
Women’s Liberation is just a lot of foolishness.
If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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.
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
We don’t want wars even when we win.
Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil.
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.
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.