We don’t want wars even when we win.
GOLDA MEIRYou’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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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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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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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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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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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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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.
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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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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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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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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