Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
GOLDA MEIRA leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
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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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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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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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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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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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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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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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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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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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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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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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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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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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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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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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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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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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