We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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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By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
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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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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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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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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
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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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Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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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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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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