Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
GOLDA MEIRThose who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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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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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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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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If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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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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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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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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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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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