Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
GOLDA MEIRA leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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 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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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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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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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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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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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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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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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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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