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.
GOLDA MEIRHow does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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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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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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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 was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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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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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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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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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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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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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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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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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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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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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 public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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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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