Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
GOLDA MEIRCan we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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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.
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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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Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
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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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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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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.
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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.
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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