Golda Meir
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Success
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.Collection: Art
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.Collection: Government
Don't be humble... you're not that great.Collection: Great
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.Collection: Alone
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.Collection: Age
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.Collection: Time
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.Collection: Life
The dog that trots about finds a bone.Collection: Motivational
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.Collection: Freedom
Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.Collection: Morning
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.Collection: Sad
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.Collection: Equality
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.Collection: Women
Being seventy is not a sin.Collection: Age
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.Collection: Leadership
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.Collection: War
We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.Collection: God
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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!
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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.
There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
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.
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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.
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...Collection: Children
There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.Collection: Children
If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Country
The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.Collection: Hate
Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.Collection: Lasts
We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.Collection: Children
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.Collection: Children
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?Collection: Funny
How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.Collection: Men
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Home