It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
GOLDA MEIRThose who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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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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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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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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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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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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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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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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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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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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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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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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