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.
GOLDA MEIRTrust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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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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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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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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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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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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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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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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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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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Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
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