It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
GOLDA MEIRDon’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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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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