Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
GOLDA MEIRThe only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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 don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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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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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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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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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I’m not what I’d like to be.
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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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