I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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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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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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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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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I’m not what I’d like to be.
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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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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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