Golda Meir Quotes

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them.

Fashion is an imposition, a rein on freedom.

I have given instructions that I be informed every time one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in the middle of the night. When President Nasser leaves instructions that he is to be awakened in the middle of the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there will be peace.

It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? . . . Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

„Moderne Geschichte sollte man nur mit dem Bleistift schreiben.

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

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

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

What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy? Where is your decency? Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle?

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 ...

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.

What person with any sense likes himself? I know myself too well to like myself.

It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a people that has maintained its distinct identity for more than 2,000 years, with all the pain and torment that has been inflicted upon it.

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.

If we have to have a choice between dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.