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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. — Golda Meir

How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to. — Golda Meir

Being seventy is not a sin. — Golda Meir

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

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

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

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. — Golda Meir

Don't be so humble, you're not that great. — Golda Meir

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

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals. — Golda Meir

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

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

If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place. — Golda Meir

We don't want wars even when we win. — Golda Meir

There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel. — Golda Meir

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

The dog that trots about finds a bone. — Golda Meir

Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either. — Golda Meir

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win. — Golda Meir

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

You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty. — Golda Meir

There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed. — Golda Meir

You can't improve on saying nothing. — Golda Meir

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. — Golda Meir

It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke. — Golda Meir

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore. — Golda Meir

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. — Golda Meir

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

Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values. — Golda Meir

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively. — Golda Meir

The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied. — Golda Meir

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

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

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

Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew. — Golda Meir

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations. — Golda Meir

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

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

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself. — Golda Meir

Don't be humble. Your not that great. — Golda Meir

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. — Golda Meir

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. — Golda Meir

Whether women are better than men I cannot say ... but i can say they are certainly no worse. — Golda Meir

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing. — Golda Meir

The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life? — Golda Meir

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. — Golda Meir

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. — Golda Meir

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

The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers. — Golda Meir

Don't be so humble - you are not that great. — Golda Meir

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

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour. — Golda Meir

Don't be humble ... you're not that great. — Golda Meir

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom. — Golda Meir

There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews. — Golda Meir

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. — Golda Meir

Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust. — Golda Meir

Zionism and pessimism are not compatible. — Golda Meir

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

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

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight. — Golda Meir

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

Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil. — Golda Meir

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either — Golda Meir

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go. — Golda Meir

Fashion is an imposition, a rein on freedom. — Golda Meir

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative. — Golda Meir

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. — Golda Meir

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. — Golda Meir

Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else? — Golda Meir