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.
GOLDA MEIRThe only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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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Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I’m not what I’d like to be.
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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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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 be humble… you’re not that great.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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.
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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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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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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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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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