The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
GOLDA MEIRTo be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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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 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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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.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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