Quote

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs we have no place to go.

Golda Meir

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Golda Meir
Age: 80 †
Born: 1898
Born: May 3
Died: 1978
Died: December 8
Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Politician
Teacher
Kiev
Golda Meyerson
Golda Mabovich
Jews
Jew
Weapons
Struggle
Secret
Place
Arabs
Nationalism
Weapon

More quotes by Golda Meir

Image
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
Golda Meir
Image
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
Golda Meir
Image
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
Golda Meir
Image
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
Image
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.
Golda Meir
Image
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
Golda Meir
Image
Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
Golda Meir
Image
Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
Golda Meir
Image
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir
Image
Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided - not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
Golda Meir
Image
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.
Golda Meir
Image
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.
Golda Meir
Image
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
Golda Meir
Image
But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build. Even for the best purpose it is criminal to turn an individual into simply a means for some ultimate end. A society in which the dignity of the individual is destroyed cannot hope to be a decent society.
Golda Meir
Image
We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
Golda Meir
Image
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.
Golda Meir
Image
There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.
Golda Meir
Image
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
Golda Meir
Image
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
Golda Meir
Image
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