Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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 can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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.
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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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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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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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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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I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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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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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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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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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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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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