I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIRThose that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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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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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.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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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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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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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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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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