Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
GOLDA MEIRThe only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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I don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
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There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
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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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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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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.
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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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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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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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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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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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