The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
GOLDA MEIR
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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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I 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.
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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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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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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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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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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
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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 will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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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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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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