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.
GOLDA MEIRYou’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
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I don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
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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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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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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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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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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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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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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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There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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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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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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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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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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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 can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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