Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
GOLDA MEIRGlorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
GOLDA MEIRMen are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
GOLDA MEIREvery civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
GOLDA MEIRAt 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 MEIRA leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
GOLDA MEIRYou can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
GOLDA MEIRWe say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
GOLDA MEIRMen 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 MEIRBy 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?
GOLDA MEIRThere will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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 MEIRAbove 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 MEIRI never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
GOLDA MEIRWhether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
GOLDA MEIRWe do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
GOLDA MEIRThis 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