If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
GOLDA MEIRDon’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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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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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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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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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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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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 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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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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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 don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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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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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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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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