You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
GOLDA MEIRAs President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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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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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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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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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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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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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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