I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
GOLDA MEIRWe 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.
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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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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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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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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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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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 world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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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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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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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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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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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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