Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
GOLDA MEIRThere is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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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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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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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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We 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.
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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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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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