It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
GOLDA MEIRThe world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
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It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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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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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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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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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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