Golda Meir Quotes

It isnt enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

By 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?

I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.

There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.