Moshe Dayan Quotes & Sayings

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

“Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.”

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

“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.”

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

“The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.”

“The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.”

“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.”

“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.”

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