We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
GOLDA MEIRWe don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
GOLDA MEIRI never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
GOLDA MEIRThose who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIRWe can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
GOLDA MEIRWe don’t want wars even when we win.
GOLDA MEIRPessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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.
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 MEIRTo be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
GOLDA MEIRZionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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 MEIROne cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
GOLDA MEIRFashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
GOLDA MEIRThe only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
GOLDA MEIRI’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
GOLDA MEIRIt is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
GOLDA MEIR