Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Shimen Ruskin: Mordcha

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Quotes 

• Mordcha : If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.

• Mordcha : Why should I break my head about the outside world? Let the outside world break it's own head! Well put, no?

• Mordcha : May the Tzar have his own personal plague!

• Golde : [about Anatevka after being evicted]  It's just a place.

  Mordcha : And our forefathers have been forced out of many, many places at a moment's notice.

  Tevye : Maybe that's why... we always wear our hats.

• Mordcha : May the authorities be like onions with their heads in the ground!

• Mordcha : [to Perchik, after he mentions he came from the University in Kiev]  Tell me, is that a place where you learned how not to respect your elders?