Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
GOLDA MEIRBeing seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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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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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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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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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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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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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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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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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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