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.
GOLDA MEIR
We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I’m not what I’d like to be.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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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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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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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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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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