It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
GOLDA MEIRAbility hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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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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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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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.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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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.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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