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.
GOLDA MEIRThe world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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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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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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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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I don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
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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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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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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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