Moshe Dayan

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

— Moshe Dayan

What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps…

— Moshe Dayan

In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was…

— Moshe Dayan

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

— Moshe Dayan

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

— Moshe Dayan

I have the strength to endure it all.

— Moshe Dayan

It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab…

— Moshe Dayan

We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every…

— Moshe Dayan

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and…

— Moshe Dayan

We have no solution... You [Palestinians] shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave, and we will see where…

— Moshe Dayan

We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead…

— Moshe Dayan

We are a small nation, but strong.

— Moshe Dayan

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

— Moshe Dayan

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

— Moshe Dayan

The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.

— Moshe Dayan

During the last 100 years our people have been in a process of building up the country and the nation, of expansion,…

— Moshe Dayan

Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are…

— Moshe Dayan

We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every…

— Moshe Dayan

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

— Moshe Dayan

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

— Moshe Dayan

Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?

— Moshe Dayan

It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the…

— Moshe Dayan

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

— Moshe Dayan

Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of…

— Moshe Dayan

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

— Moshe Dayan