Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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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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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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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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Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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