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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

Golda Meir

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.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Fulfill God Legal Promise
Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
GOLDA MEIR

Children Devotion Husband Measurement Ourselves
It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
GOLDA MEIR

Cry Discover Easy Myself People Thinking
Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
GOLDA MEIR

Civilization Compromise Necessary Negotiation Value
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
GOLDA MEIR

Government Management Myself Time
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?
GOLDA MEIR

Country Myself Right Way
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
GOLDA MEIR

Government Ideal Reality World
You can’t improve on saying nothing.
GOLDA MEIR

Improvement Talk Voice Yourself
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Himself Morning Problem Thinking Worry
Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
GOLDA MEIR

Commitment Man Rape
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Alive Bad Choice Death Image
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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Better Job Man Success Woman
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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Fashion Freedom Imposition
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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Man Myself Talk Togetherness Woman Worst
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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Accomplishment Alone Collection Myself
The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
GOLDA MEIR

Hate Jew Ourselves Pity World

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