Golda Meir Quotes

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.

It’s the toughest decision a president has to make, by far. There is no passing the buck, no sharing the responsibility. It is a terribly lonely decision.

A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminatingly murderous.

It is very difficult to do one's duty. I was considered a barbarian because at the storming of the Praga, 7,000 people were killed. Europe says that I am a monster. I myself have read this in the papers, but I would have liked to talk to people about this and ask them: is it not better to finish a war with the death of 7,000 people rather than to drag it on and kill 100,000.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.

Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people.

A first impulse was never a crime.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

Nothing can justify war.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Every time I kill someone, he can't plant an I.E.D. You don't think twice about it.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

There is no such thing as a politically correct war.

I don't blame it on the Hell's Angels. I blame it on the people who were there.

Morality is contraband in war.