How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
GOLDA MEIRThe modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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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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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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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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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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