To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
GOLDA MEIRWomen’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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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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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I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
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