Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
GOLDA MEIRBy 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?
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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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 will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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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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I don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
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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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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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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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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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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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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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