Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
GOLDA MEIRI want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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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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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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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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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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There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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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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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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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
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