Golda Meir Quotes

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's 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...

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

This is the vow to those consumed by hatred. We have but one path—waging war on them to the death.

The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.

Israel will never surrender to hatred.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

History is not hatred.

In the midst of wanton aggression, we yet call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the ways of peace and play their part in the development of the State, with full and equal citizenship and due representation in its bodies and institutions - provisional or permanent.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

Peace will not be built, however, by people with bitterness in their hearts.

If we do not have two states [Arab and Jewish], we shall have one conflict. Neither them [the Arabs] or us should condemn our children to fighting forever.