We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
GOLDA MEIRI 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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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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 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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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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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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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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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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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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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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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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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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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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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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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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