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.
GOLDA MEIRIsrael itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I’m not what I’d like to be.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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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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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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