The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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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’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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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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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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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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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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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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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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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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Women’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.
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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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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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I 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.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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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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