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.
GOLDA MEIRAbility hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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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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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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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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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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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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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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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