Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
GOLDA MEIRThere will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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 must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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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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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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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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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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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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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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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