Golda Meir Quotes

Some people would rather dig fresh graves than heal old wounds.

You should have died when I killed you.

Some day we may be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our children, but we will never forgive them for making us kill some of theirs.

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

I make war on the living, not the dead.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

'Hatfields & McCoys' is a very profound statement in what happens when you're unable to let go of hatred and hurt and unable to have any kind of goodness in your life.

In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.

War can be fun for certain people. It's a magnet for sadists, losers, and angry dreamers.

One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories.

I have experienced within my own lifetime the attack of my winter camp and the killing of the women and children. It left me even angrier than I was - and I was never too calm to begin with.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.