Moshe Dayan Quotes

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

We are a small nation, but strong.

The proposed policy [of raising the level of public service in the occupied territories] may clash with our intention to encourage emigration from both [Gaza] Strip and Judea and Samaria. Anyone who has practical ideas or proposal to encourage emigration-let him speak up. No idea or proposal is to be dismissed out of hand.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?

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.

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

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.

We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages, and I do not blame you because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village.

The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.

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

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.

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

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

I have the strength to endure it all.

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.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

During the last 100 years our people have been in a process of building up the country and the nation, of expansion, of getting additional Jews and additional settlements in order to expand the borders here. Let no Jew say that the process has ended. Let no Jew say that we are near the end of the road.