You can’t improve on saying nothing.
GOLDA MEIRPessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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.
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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 alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
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I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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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 never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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