The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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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 don’t want wars even when we win.
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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 always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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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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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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