Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
GOLDA MEIRI 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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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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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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’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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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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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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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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 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.
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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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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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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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