Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
GOLDA MEIRWe will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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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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By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
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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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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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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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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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