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.
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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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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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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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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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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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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