Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
GOLDA MEIRMen who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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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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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
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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 Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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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