The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
GOLDA MEIRMen are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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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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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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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I’m not what I’d like to 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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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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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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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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 do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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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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I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
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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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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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