Golda Meir Quotes - Page 2

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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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• Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

  Golda Meir

  Beauty, Beautiful, Girl

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• How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.

  Golda Meir

  Israel, Territory, Cleansing

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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.

  Golda Meir

  Airplane, Flying, Age

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• Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

  Golda Meir

  Love, Moving On, Break Up

  Interview with Oriana Fallaci, Ms. Magazine, April 1973.

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• It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a people that has maintained its distinct identity for more than 2,000 years, with all the pain and torment that has been inflicted upon it.

  Golda Meir

  Religious, Pain, Believe

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

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• There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.

  Golda Meir

  Palestinian, Zionist, Israeli

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• We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

  Golda Meir

  Military, Thank God, Thrive

  Vogue, July 1969.

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

  Golda Meir

  Age, Sin, Seventies

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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.

  Golda Meir

  Fighting, Hands, Community

  Golda Meir, Marie Syrkin (1973). “A land of our own: an oral autobiography”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it's tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn't solved fifty or even a hundred years ago, but it's still a great country, a country full of opportunities, of freedom! Does it seem nothing to you to be able to say what you like, even against the government, the Establishment?

  Golda Meir

  Country, Opportunity, Government

  Interview with Oriana Fallaci, Ms. Magazine, April 1973.

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• One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field with a very primitive plow; pulling the plow were an ox and a woman. Now, if it means that we have destroyed this romantic picture by bringing in tractors, combines, and threshing machines, this is true: we have.

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Humorous, Mean

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• A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government!

  Golda Meir

  Men, Israel, Doubt

  "Israel’s Iron Lady Unfiltered: 17 Golda Meir Quotes on Her 117th Birthday" by Judd Yadid, www.haaretz.com. May 03, 2015.

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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.

  Golda Meir

  Sympathy, Expression, People

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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.

  Golda Meir

  War, Differences, Decision

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• 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 Meir

  Giving Up, Believe, Don't Give Up

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• We don't want wars even when we win.

  Golda Meir

  Funny, War, Winning

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

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• We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

  Golda Meir

  Humorous, Israel, Victory

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

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• Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

  Golda Meir

  Country, Morning, Thinking

  International Herald Tribune, May 11, 1978.

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• Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Birthday, Women

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Golda Meir

  Cities, Half, Jerusalem

  Time Magazine, February 19, 1973.

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• Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

  Golda Meir

  Luxury, Pessimism, Judaism

  The Observer, December 29, 1974.

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• How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.

  Golda Meir

  Men, Feminism, Doe

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• Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Work, Memorable

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