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Golda Meir Inspirational Quotes (61)

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We don't want wars even when we win.
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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.
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Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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Once in a Cabinet we had to deal with the fact that there had been an outbreak of assaults on women at night. One minister suggested a curfew women should stay home after dark. I said, 'But it's the men who are attacking the women. If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.
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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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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
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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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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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I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs we have no place to go.
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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 is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
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But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build. Even for the best purpose it is criminal to turn an individual into simply a means for some ultimate end. A society in which the dignity of the individual is destroyed cannot hope to be a decent society.
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