Moshe Dayan quotes - page 2

To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger. (Moshe Dayan)
I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest. View quote
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We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today. View quote
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It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions. View quote
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The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective. View quote
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I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal. View quote
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Along the Syria border there were no farms and no refugee camps - there was only the Syrian army... The kibbutzim saw the good agricultural land ... and they dreamed about it... They didn't even try to hide their greed for the land... We would send a tractor to plow some area where it wasn't possible to do anything, in the demilitarized area, and knew in advance that the Syrians would start to shoot. If they didn't shoot, we would tell the tractor to advance further, until in the end the Syrians would get annoyed and shoot. And then we would use artillery and later the air force also, and that's how it was...The Syrians, on the fourth day of the war, were not a threat to us. View quote
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I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home. (Moshe Dayan)
We don't have a solution, and you will continue living like dogs, and whoever wants will go, and will see how this procedure will work out. For now, it works out. Let's say the truth. We want peace. If there is no peace, we will maintain military rule and we will have four to five military compounds on the mountains, and they will sit ten years under the Israeli military regime. View quote
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Misattributed: [Israel] must see the sword as the main, if not the only, instrument with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension. Toward this end it may, no - it must - invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation-and-revenge... View quote
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Let's say "we don't have a solution, and you will continue living like dogs, and whoever wants will go, and we'll see how this procedure will work out." View quote
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I have the strength to endure it all. View quote
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We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds. View quote
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We are a small nation, but strong. View quote
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After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life. View quote
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The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war. View quote
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The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands. View quote
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Who needs such a long intestine, anyway? (Moshe Dayan)
Let's say "we don't have a solution, and you will continue living like dogs, and whoever wants will go, and we'll see how this procedure will work out." For now, it works out. Let's say the truth. We want peace. If there is no peace, we will maintain military rule and we will have four to five military compounds on the mountains, and they will sit ten years under the Israeli military regime. Whoever wants to go, will want. It's possible that in five years, there will be 200,000 fewer people, and that's an enormous thing. View quote
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