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.
GOLDA MEIRThose that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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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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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 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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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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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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