Moshe Dayan Quotes

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul

Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.

The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.

We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today.

There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.

It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective.

The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.

We have no solution ... You [Palestinians] shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave, and we will see where this process leads.

Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.

Most important, don't do anything you don't want.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.

In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.

Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.

A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal.

If we lose this war, I'll just start another in my wife's name.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

I have the strength to endure it all.

I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.

We are a small nation, but strong.

There is no more Palestine. Finished.

I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts.

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.