A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
GOLDA MEIRMy dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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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 I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
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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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There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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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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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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