The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
GOLDA MEIRTrust 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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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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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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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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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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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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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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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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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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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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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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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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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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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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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