We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
GOLDA MEIR
I’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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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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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories 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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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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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.
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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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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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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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