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.
GOLDA MEIRThe Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh 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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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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