The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
GOLDA MEIRMen who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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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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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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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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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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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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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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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 never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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