Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
GOLDA MEIRFashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
GOLDA MEIRI’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 MEIRHow does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
GOLDA MEIRPessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
GOLDA MEIRWhether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
GOLDA MEIRHow can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
GOLDA MEIRTo be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
GOLDA MEIRYou’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
GOLDA MEIRWe don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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 MEIRI don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
GOLDA MEIRIsrael itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
GOLDA MEIRThe only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
GOLDA MEIRWe do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
GOLDA MEIRA leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
GOLDA MEIRWe can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
GOLDA MEIR