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 MEIRYou can’t improve on saying nothing.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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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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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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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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 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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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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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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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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