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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
For Jews, the paradigmatic convert is the biblical Ruth, who sought not only a new relationship with God but also a new nationality.
— Meir Soloveichik
Either Jesus is the son of God, or he is not.
— Meir Soloveichik
This is Zemzem near Mecca. According to this, however, Hagar headed into the Arabian Peninsula rather than toward Egypt.
— Abraham Meir Ben Ibn Ezra
Being seventy is not a sin.
— Golda Meir
A woman has to look good, but a man - a little bit nicer looking than a monkey is enough.
— Meir Shalev
Don't be so humble, you're not that great.
— Golda Meir
Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.
— Meir Soloveichik
The sign of a great man is that the closer you get, the greater he seems.
— Israel Meir Kagan
Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.
— Meir Kahane
Judaism, I would argue, does demand love for our fellow human beings, but only to an extent. 'Hate' is not always synonymous with the terribly sinful.
— Meir Soloveichik
It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.
— Meir Kahane
We have our own values; we build our own special, our JEWISH life - and we are proud, so very proud.
— Meir Kahane
For both Protestants and Catholics, and whether or not absolute continence is demanded of the clergy, celibacy remains a blessed spiritual state.
— Meir Soloveichik
We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government.
— Meir Soloveichik
One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.
— Meir Kahane
The giving of the Torah is a story of God seeking to provide humanity with the opportunity to make moral decisions.
— Meir Soloveichik
Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.
— Meir Kahane
The Hebrew Bible, while firmly opposing pagan sexual practices, nevertheless celebrates man's and woman's desire for each other as divinely designed.
— Meir Soloveichik
You can't improve on saying nothing.
— Golda Meir
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do.
— Golda Meir
There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
— Golda Meir
Life is essentially a question of values.
— Meir Kahane
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
— Golda Meir
God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity.
— Meir Soloveichik
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
— Golda Meir
Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
— Golda Meir
Rather than forgive, we can wish ill; rather than hope for repentance, we can instead hope that our enemies experience the wrath of God.
— Meir Soloveichik
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
— Golda Meir
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either
— 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
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
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
— Golda Meir
Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.
— Golda Meir
Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission.
— Meir Soloveichik
With faith, there are no questions; without faith, there are no answers.
— Yisroel Meir Ha-Cohen
We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
— Golda Meir
That's true freedom for a person. Not money, but time.
— Meir Shalev
Traditional Judaism has always embraced the doctrine of the immortality of the soul and the ultimate resurrection of the dead.
— Meir Soloveichik
While Jews and Christians both agree on many religious issues, we disagree, and believe each other profoundly wrong, about others.
— Meir Soloveichik
Don't be humble ... you're not that great.
— Golda Meir
The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.
— Meir Kahane
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
Therefore, it is forbidden to say anything to anyone that might cause animosity between any two people.
— Israel Meir Kagan
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
— Golda Meir
Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even cannons. One simply lights a small candle and the darkness flees before it.
— Israel Meir Kagan
The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?
— Golda Meir
Whether women are better than men I cannot say ... but i can say they are certainly no worse.
— Golda Meir
Today, Jewish defense is an accepted thing.
— Meir Kahane
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
Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.
— Meir Soloveichik
Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.
— Meir Kahane
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.
— Golda Meir
Fashion is an imposition, a rein on freedom.
— Golda Meir
Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God.
— Meir Soloveichik
Traditional Christians cannot conceive of God as Mormons do: a God who has a wife, who invites other human beings to become gods with him.
— Meir Soloveichik
The moment that one person in an argument claims to be God, dialogue and debate become impossible.
— Meir Soloveichik
Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil.
— Golda Meir
If Christians see Mormonism as a dramatic deviation from a millennia-old, biblically-based faith, Jews see Christianity in the same light.
— Meir Soloveichik
We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
— Golda Meir
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
— Golda Meir
We live in an age in which the biblical-moral traditions that have guided us for centuries are increasingly being forgotten.
— Meir Soloveichik
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
— Golda Meir
Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
— Golda Meir
I do work a lot on arguing that things which people assume are always wrong are not necessarily so and, indeed, can often be right.
— Meir Soloveichik
Don't be humble. Your not that great.
— Golda Meir
There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews.
— Golda Meir
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
— Golda Meir