Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
GOLDA MEIRI’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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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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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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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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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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If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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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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This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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