I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
GOLDA MEIRIsrael itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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 public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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From 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.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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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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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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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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