Quotes from Golda Meir
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
— Golda Meir
There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
— Golda Meir
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
— Golda Meir
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never afford himself.
— Golda Meir
This 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
Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
— Golda Meir
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
— Golda Meir
From 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 Meir
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
— Golda Meir
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
— Golda Meir
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
— Golda Meir
I'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 Meir