You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
GOLDA MEIRThe deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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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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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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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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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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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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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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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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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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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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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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