One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
GOLDA MEIRBeing seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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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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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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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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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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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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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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 who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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You can’t improve on saying 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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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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