64 Quotes by Moshe Dayan

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

It is not in our hands to prevent the murder of workers… and families… but it is in our hands to fix a high price for our blood, so high that the Arab community and the Arab military forces will not be willing to pay it.

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul

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.

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

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

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

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

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. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.