Moshe Dayan Quotes

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

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

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.

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

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

There is no more Palestine. Finished...

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

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

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.

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

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 method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 these geography books no longer exist.

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

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.

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

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

It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the ultimate object of erecting the Israeli Empire.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I have the strength to endure it all.

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