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.
GOLDA MEIRMy 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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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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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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
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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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Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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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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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.
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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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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