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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Don’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.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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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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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.
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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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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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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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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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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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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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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
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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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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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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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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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