The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
GOLDA MEIRMen are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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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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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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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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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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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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 can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
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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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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