Moshe Dayan Quotes - Page 2

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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

  Army, Israel, Land

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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

  Government, Israel, Weakness

  "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World". Book by Avi Shlaim, 2000.

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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 these geography books no longer exist.

  Moshe Dayan

  Book, Israel, Names

  Moshe Dayan's address to the students at Technion University in Haifa, Israel (March 19, 1969), a transcription of which appeared in Ha'aretz (April 4, 1969); later quoted in Edward W. Said "The Question of Palestine" (p. 14), 1980.

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• 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.

  Moshe Dayan

  Ideas, Hands, Gaza Strip

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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.

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  Fog, Defense, Lasts

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• It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the ultimate object of erecting the Israeli Empire.

  Moshe Dayan

  War, Lying, Fighting

  Radio "Israel", February 12, 1952.

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

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  Funny, War, Names

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

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  Children, Our Lives

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

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  America, Long, Tables

  Moshe Dayan (1981). “Breakthrough: a personal account of the Egypt-Israel peace negotiations”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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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

  Blood, Gaza Strip, Demand

  "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World". Book by Avi Shlaim, 2000.

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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

  Long, Want, Calm

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

  Moshe Dayan

  Decision, Democracy, Majority

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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

  Reality, Thinking, Two

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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

  Heart, Secret, Medication

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• 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.

  Moshe Dayan

  Should Have, Two, Defense

  Private conversation with Rami Tal (1976), as quoted in Associated Press report, May 11, 1997.

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

  Moshe Dayan

  Home, Thinking, Should

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