We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
GOLDA MEIRIt is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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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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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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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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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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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I 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.
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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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If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
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