Moshe Dayan Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Moshe Dayan:
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.
~Moshe Dayan
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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.
~Moshe Dayan
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Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?
~Moshe Dayan
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I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.
~Moshe Dayan
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I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.
~Moshe Dayan
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It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.
~Moshe Dayan
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Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.
~Moshe Dayan
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The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.
~Moshe Dayan
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To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.
~Moshe Dayan
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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.
~Moshe Dayan
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We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today.
~Moshe Dayan
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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.
~Moshe Dayan
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If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.
~Moshe Dayan
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I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.
~Moshe Dayan
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Most important, don't do anything you don't want.
~Moshe Dayan
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After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.
~Moshe Dayan
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It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective.
~Moshe Dayan
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I have the strength to endure it all.
~Moshe Dayan
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The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.
~Moshe Dayan
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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.
~Moshe Dayan
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There is no more Palestine. Finished.
~Moshe Dayan
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Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.
~Moshe Dayan
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I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.
~Moshe Dayan
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The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.
~Moshe Dayan
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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.
~Moshe Dayan
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I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.
~Moshe Dayan
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We are a small nation, but strong.
~Moshe Dayan
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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.
~Moshe Dayan
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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
~Moshe Dayan
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Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
~Moshe Dayan
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There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.
~Moshe Dayan
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