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.
GOLDA MEIRThis country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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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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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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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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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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 can’t improve on saying nothing.
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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My 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.
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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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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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