Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
GOLDA MEIRIt’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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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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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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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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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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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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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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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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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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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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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