From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
GOLDA MEIRAnybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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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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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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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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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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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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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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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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