We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
GOLDA MEIRIsrael itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
More Golda Meir Quotes
-
-
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
GOLDA MEIR -
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
GOLDA MEIR -
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 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 -
I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
GOLDA MEIR -
You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
GOLDA MEIR -
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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 -
Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
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 -
Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
GOLDA MEIR -
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
GOLDA MEIR -
A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
GOLDA MEIR -
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
GOLDA MEIR -
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIR






