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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Golda Meir

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.
GOLDA MEIR

Fate Friendship Natural Ourselves People World
I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
GOLDA MEIR

Community Fight Friendship Hands Jew Stone
A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
GOLDA MEIR

Battle Hesitation Himself Leadership Nation
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
GOLDA MEIR

Negotiation Peace Road War
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Affection Honesty Myself Possible Question Success
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
GOLDA MEIR

Memories Oneself Past Present Try
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Decision Difference Kill Oneself Worst
Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Promise Strong
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
GOLDA MEIR

Government Management Myself Time
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
GOLDA MEIR

Conventional Deal History People Public Story
Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
GOLDA MEIR

Commitment Man Rape
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
GOLDA MEIR

Accomplishment Alone Collection Myself
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Difference Explanation Jew Man Myself Place Young
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
GOLDA MEIR

Bloom Growth Happiness Kind Victory
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Easy Fly Old Storm Time Wisdom Yourself
Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
GOLDA MEIR

Civilization Compromise Necessary Negotiation Value

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