Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
GOLDA MEIRI 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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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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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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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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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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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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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