Golda Meir Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• 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...

  Golda Meir

  Children, Hate, Israel

  "Hollywood Executives Condemn 'Hamas Terrorists' in ADL Ad" by Tina Daunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 19, 2014.

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

  Golda Meir

  Children, Hate, War

• 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.

  Golda Meir

  Children, War, School

• There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.

  Golda Meir

  Children, Hate, Israel

• We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

  Golda Meir

  Children, Israel, Forgiving

• 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.

  Golda Meir

  Family, Mothers Day, Children

  1972 In Newsweek, 23 Oct.

• At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

  Golda Meir

  Mother, Children, Struggle

• Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?

  Golda Meir

  Children, Husband, Women

  Golda Meir, Marie Syrkin (1973). “A land of our own: an oral autobiography”, Putnam Publishing Group

• 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].

  Golda Meir

  Children, War, Coffee

  Golda Meir's speech as acting head of the Jewish Agency Political Department at the Jewish Agency Executive meeting in Arab Haifa (May 6, 1948) as quoted in Benny Morris "The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited" (pp. 309-310), January 15, 2004.

• the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?

  Golda Meir

  Children, Women, Modern Woman

  Golda Meir, Marie Syrkin (1973). “A land of our own: an oral autobiography”, Putnam Publishing Group

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