Golda Meir War Quotations

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]'.

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 is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.

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.

We don't want wars even when we win.

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.