The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
GOLDA MEIRThe only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
GOLDA MEIRWomen’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
GOLDA MEIRIt is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
GOLDA MEIRThe only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
GOLDA MEIRThe public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
GOLDA MEIRTrust 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.
GOLDA MEIRGlorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
GOLDA MEIRHow does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
GOLDA MEIRIsrael itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
GOLDA MEIRThere can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
GOLDA MEIRI want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
GOLDA MEIRFrom Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
GOLDA MEIRIt is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
GOLDA MEIRThe world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
GOLDA MEIRFashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
GOLDA MEIRYou can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
GOLDA MEIR