You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
GOLDA MEIRWe only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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 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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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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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By 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?
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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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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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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It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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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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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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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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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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