It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
GOLDA MEIRI 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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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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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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’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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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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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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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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By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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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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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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