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.
GOLDA MEIRTrust 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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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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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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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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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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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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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 can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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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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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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