Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
GOLDA MEIR
It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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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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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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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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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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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 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.
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