How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
GOLDA MEIRDon’t be humble… you’re not that great.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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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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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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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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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 thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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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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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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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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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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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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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
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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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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
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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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