Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
GOLDA MEIRAbility hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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 Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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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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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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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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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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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 will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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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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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