You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
GOLDA MEIRYou’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
GOLDA MEIRDon’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.
GOLDA MEIRThe only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
GOLDA MEIRTrust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
GOLDA MEIRYou can’t improve on saying nothing.
GOLDA MEIRGlorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
GOLDA MEIRZionism and pessimism are not compatible.
GOLDA MEIRThe public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
GOLDA MEIRWomen’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
GOLDA MEIRThere is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
GOLDA MEIRHow does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
GOLDA MEIRTrust 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.
GOLDA MEIRI 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 MEIRIsrael itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
GOLDA MEIRTo be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
GOLDA MEIRThose that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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