There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
GOLDA MEIRWe only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
More Golda Meir Quotes
-
-
There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
GOLDA MEIR -
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
GOLDA MEIR -
Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
GOLDA MEIR -
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
GOLDA MEIR -
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.
GOLDA MEIR -
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
GOLDA MEIR -
How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
GOLDA MEIR -
Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
GOLDA MEIR -
We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
GOLDA MEIR -
It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
GOLDA MEIR -
A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
GOLDA MEIR -
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.
GOLDA MEIR -
How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
GOLDA MEIR -
You can’t improve on saying nothing.
GOLDA MEIR -
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
GOLDA MEIR