The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
GOLDA MEIRI never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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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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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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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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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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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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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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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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