Quotes by Golda Meir
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
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.
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.
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?
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...
If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.
There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
Once in a Cabinet we had to deal with the fact that there had been an outbreak of assaults on women at night. One minister suggested a curfew; women should stay home after dark. I said, 'But it's the men who are attacking the women. If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.
The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.
How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.