Quote

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

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
Imposition
Reign
Fashion
Freedom

More quotes by Golda Meir

Image
How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?.. the America I've known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I've known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
Golda Meir
Image
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.
Golda Meir
Image
the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?
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
Image
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
Golda Meir
Image
Once in a Cabinet we had to deal with the fact that there had been an outbreak of assaults on women at night. One minister suggested a curfew women should stay home after dark. I said, 'But it's the men who are attacking the women. If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.
Golda Meir
Image
Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen.
Golda Meir
Image
How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
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 is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
Golda Meir
Image
Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
Golda Meir
Image
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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
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
You can't improve on saying nothing.
Golda Meir
Image
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
Golda Meir