Quotes By Moshe Dayan

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

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

It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.

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.

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

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

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

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

Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?

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

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

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

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.

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

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.

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

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.

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

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

Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

I have the strength to endure it all.

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

We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds.

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

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.

There is no more Palestine. Finished.

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.

We are a small nation, but strong.