Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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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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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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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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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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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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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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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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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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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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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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