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.
GOLDA MEIRWe Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
More Golda Meir Quotes
-
-
We 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.
GOLDA MEIR -
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
GOLDA MEIR -
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
GOLDA MEIR -
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
GOLDA MEIR -
The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
GOLDA MEIR -
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
GOLDA MEIR -
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
GOLDA MEIR -
There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
GOLDA MEIR -
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 MEIR -
It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
GOLDA MEIR -
It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIR -
I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
GOLDA MEIR -
Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
GOLDA MEIR -
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
GOLDA MEIR -
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.
GOLDA MEIR