Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
GOLDA MEIRThe world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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.
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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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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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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.
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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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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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