Golda Meir Quotes

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

It is the tragedy of our generation, that small nations have not yet gained the security of exercising their natural right—namely that of being masters of their own destiny.

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

I prefer to stay alive and be criticized than be sympathized.

ولنكن صرحاء... فمصير الدول الصغيرة يعتمد في النهاية على القوى العظمي التي دائما ما تكون لها مصالح تريد حمايتها، وكنا نريد مواصلة الحرب لإيقاع الهزائم بالمصريين والسوريين وربما لو حصلنا على مزيد من الوقت لتمكننا من تحقيق ذلك، لكن موقف السادات كان أقوى منا وكذلك كانت لديه الوسائل لإقناع روسيا وكانت المراهنات عليه في موسكو مرتفعة جدا حقا، ولذا فإنني لم أفاجأ عنما قعد مجلس الأمن جلسة طارئة فجر 22 أكتوبر وأصدر قرارا يدعو إلى وقف إطلاق النار خلال اثنتي عشرة ساعة.

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.

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

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.

"لقد وجد "اللاجئون الفلسطينيون" (كنتيجة) لرغبة العرب ومحاولاتهم لتدمير إسرائيل، ولم يوجدوا (بسبب) إسرائيل."

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

Don’t be so humble, you’re not that great.

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.

When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.

It has never ceased to astonish me that the Arab states have been so eager to go to war against us. Almost from the very beginning of Zionist settlement until today, they have been consumed by hatred for us.

It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to leave. I entered the houses, there were houses where the coffee and pita bread were left on the table, and I could not avoid [thinking] that this, indeed, had been the picture in many Jewish towns [i.e., in Europe, during World War II]'.