It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
GOLDA MEIRThe public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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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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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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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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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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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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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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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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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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