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.
GOLDA MEIRTo be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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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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From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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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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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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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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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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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 don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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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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