Moshe Dayan Quotes

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

Peace, Friends, Talk

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Moshe Dayan

Freedom, Soul, Oxygen

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

Blame, Place, Books

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

Democracy, Decisions, Accept

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

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

Money, Friends, Advice

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

Purpose, Soldiers, Bring

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

Peace, Long, Road

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

Cannot, Against, Stand

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

Able, Gun, House

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

Long, Through, Calm

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

Life, Time, Children

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

Family, Home, Living

I have the strength to endure it all.
Moshe Dayan

Strength, Endure

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

Life, Reality, May

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

Time, Last, Week

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

Heart, Secret, 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.
Moshe Dayan

Power, Strength, Cause

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

Power, Worth, High

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

Moment, Around, Wait

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

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

War, Fire, Begin

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.
Moshe Dayan

Far, Punishment, Effective

The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.
Moshe Dayan

Old, Hands, City

There is no more Palestine. Finished.
Moshe Dayan

Palestine, Finished

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Biography

Nationality: Israeli

Born: May 20, 1915

Died: October 16, 1981

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