Golda Meir Quotes

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  One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

  Golda Meir

  Inspiration, Past, Trying

  "My Life". Book by Golda Meir, 1975.

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• We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...

  Golda Meir

  Children, Hate, Israel

  "Hollywood Executives Condemn 'Hamas Terrorists' in ADL Ad" by Tina Daunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 19, 2014.

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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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  Children, Hate, Israel

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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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  Funny, Humorous, Israel

  Golda Meir, Israel Shenker, Mary Shenker (1970). “As good as Golda: the warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister”

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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.

  Golda Meir

  Country, Israel, People

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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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  Hate, World Love, World

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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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  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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• Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.

  Golda Meir

  Lasts, Gas, Jew

  1967 Speech in NewYork,11 Jun.

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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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  Struggle, Secret, Weapons

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• We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

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  Children, Israel, Forgiving

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• The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.

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  Children, Hate, War

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• 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

  Funny, Humorous, Oil

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  Don't be humble... you're not that great.

  Golda Meir

  Sarcastic, Humble, Humility

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 18 Mar. 1969

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• Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.

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  Israel, Holocaust, Guarantees

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• Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

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  Funny, Humorous, Oil

  Speech at state dinner forWilly Brandt, Jerusalem, 10 June 1973

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• You can't improve on saying nothing.

  Golda Meir

  Silence, Saying Nothing

  Golda Meir, Israel Shenker, Mary Shenker (1970). “As good as Golda: the warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister”

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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.

  Golda Meir

  Country, Israel, Promise

  Le Monde, October 15, 1971.

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• It isnt enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.

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  Believe, Struggle, Overcoming

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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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  Home, Dark, Night

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• You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

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  Inspirational, Adversity, Sparring Partner

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• It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.

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  Age, Sin, Seventies

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• Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

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  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• It isn't really important to decide when you are very young just exactly what you want to become when you grow up. It is much more important to decide on the way you want to live. If you are going to be honest with yourself and honest with your friends, if you are going to get involved in causes which are good for others, not only for yourselves, then it seems to me that that is sufficient, and maybe what you will be is only a matter of chance.

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  Growing Up, Important, Want

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  A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

  Golda Meir

  Leadership, Reality, Battle

  Quoted in Israel and Mary Shenker, As Good as Golda: The Warmth and Wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister (1970)

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• It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.

  Golda Meir

  Thinking, People, Cry

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