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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.

Golda Meir

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.
GOLDA MEIR

Bad Death Give Up Influence Myself Young
Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
GOLDA MEIR

Children Foolishness Liberty Oneself Woman
By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
GOLDA MEIR

Country Myself Right Way
It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Joke Sin Time
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
GOLDA MEIR

Negotiation Peace Road War
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Fate Friendship Natural Ourselves People World
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
GOLDA MEIR

Memories Oneself Past Present Try
Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Happiness Joy Sin Time
You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
GOLDA MEIR

Feeling Guilty Habit Yourself
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Believe Obstacle Reservation Right
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Believe Brother Hope Ideal Judgement
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
GOLDA MEIR

Beautiful Blessing Development Myself Resource True
I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
GOLDA MEIR

List Myself Routine Schedule Slave
From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
GOLDA MEIR

Fear Happiness Memories Myself Terror Tragedy Yourself
There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
GOLDA MEIR

Children Country Hate Love Peace
The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Desert Need Place Water Weapon

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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