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.
GOLDA MEIR
You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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Men 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.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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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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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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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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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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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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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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