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.
GOLDA MEIRI’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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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 can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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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 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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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