Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
GOLDA MEIRI 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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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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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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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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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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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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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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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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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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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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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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