We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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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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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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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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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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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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