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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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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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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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 Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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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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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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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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Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
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It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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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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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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