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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More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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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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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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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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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 don’t want wars even when we win.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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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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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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