How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
GOLDA MEIRFrom 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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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.
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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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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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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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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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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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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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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