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.
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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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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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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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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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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