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 MEIRTo be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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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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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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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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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
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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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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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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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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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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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