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Golda Meir Quotes about War

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

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

Golda Meir
Children, Hate, War

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

Golda Meir
War, Winning, Echoes

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

Golda Meir
Peace, War, Alternatives

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.

Golda Meir
War, Differences, Decision

We don't want wars even when we win.

Golda Meir
Funny, War, Winning
Golda Meir, Israel Shenker, Mary Shenker (1970). “As good as Golda: the warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister”

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

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

Golda Meir
War, Victory, Want
Life Magazine (p. 32), October 3, 1969.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

Golda Meir
War, Phrases, Use
Newsweek, January 19, 1976.

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.

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