Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
GOLDA MEIRThere was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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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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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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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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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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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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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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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 can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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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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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 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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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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