Golda Meir Quotes.
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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.
There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us…
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
There 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.
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
