Top 100 Quotes About Moshe
#1. Moshe Dayan would wake up with a hundred ideas. Of them ninety-five were dangerous; three more had to be rejected; the remaining two, however, were brilliant.
Ariel Sharon
#2. Moshe Dayan, who said to Sammy Davis, Jr., That's funny, to me you only look half Jewish. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#3. There is often grief that comes with loving, Moshe. But it is worth it.
Bodie Thoene
#4. When you know what you're doing, you can do what you want." -Moshe Feldenkrais
Cheryl L. Ilov
#5. There are signs, these days, that the cultural hegemony of postmodernism is weakening in the West. When even the developers tell an architect like Moshe Safdie that they are tired of it, then can philosophical thinking be far behind?
David Harvey
#6. Moshe Dayan, who donated his eye to CBS. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#7. Ben-Gurion and Moshe Dayan were self-proclaimed atheists.
Tariq Ali
#8. Moshe was an Israeli with an ear-slitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying it around with bewildering randomness.
Alex Garland
#9. Fear is the main factor in Arab politics ... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.
Moshe Sharett
#10. We are a nation that loves the peace. We will never stop growing and developing but we know how to protect ourselves using force.
Moshe Ya'alon
#11. Everything in life serves as a challenge and test to elevate us. Therefore it is right to be grateful for the opportunity to learn and grow through tackling this real life experience.
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
#12. Our breathing reflects every emotional or physical effort and every disturbance.
Moshe Feldenkrais
#14. There were some particular themes that I knew I wanted to hit, and when I got deeper into the project I found that it was becoming serious in and on its own. By the end, it's not very funny at all. I think, now, that part of the power of the book is that the jokes are kind of sparkly distractions.
Moshe Kasher
#15. A reprisal of this magnitude ... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.
Moshe Sharett
#16. When you're reading, you're laughing and not quite noticing what's happening. One second you're still kind of chuckling, and then all of sudden you're in the third act of the book and in this very dark and claustrophobic place.
Moshe Kasher
#17. The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don't say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed.
Moshe Katsav
#18. Well I haven't seen any free elections in the Arab world. They may be coming someday, except for in Israel. In Israel, Arabs have a chance to participate in free elections. Nowhere else really.
Moshe Arens
#19. Apparently Iran thinks that it can continue to deceive the world in order to reach its goals.
Moshe Katsav
#20. Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.
Moshe Dayan
#21. As for the future, we are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority which originally threatened us.
Moshe Sharett
#22. Every entity loses perfection as long as it is not fulfilling its purpose.
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
#23. We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.
Moshe Sharett
#24. In short, health is measured by the shock a person can take without his usual way of life being compromised
Moshe Feldenkrais
#25. Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.
Moshe Sharett
#26. 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.
Moshe Dayan
#27. To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.
Moshe Dayan
#28. Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.
Moshe Sharett
#29. I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.
Moshe Safdie
#32. If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan
#33. My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behaviour so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants.
Moshe Feldenkrais
#34. We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today.
Moshe Dayan
#35. 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.
Moshe Dayan
#36. Terrorism and negotiations simply don't go together.
Moshe Arens
#37. I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my childhood was affecting black culture and black accents and black music and anything black I was into.
Moshe Kasher
#38. No matter how closely we look, it is difficult to find a mental act that can take place without the support of some physical function.
Moshe Feldenkrais
#40. If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.
Moshe Dayan
#41. A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have a purpose, that stay there for hundreds of years or decades.
Moshe Safdie
#42. Big efforts should be made to integrate Israel's Arab citizens into the fabric of the Israeli society and the Israeli economy. That's really the key to any further progress to do with the Palestinians beyond Israel's borders.
Moshe Arens
#43. If you can't get up for an old woman on the bus, you can't be an officer in the IDF.
Moshe Ya'alon
#44. 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
#45. My identity is always at the forefront, and I also think that every article that is written about me refers to me as an Israeli architect.
Moshe Safdie
#46. I know of nothing more exciting than war.
Moshe Dayan
#47. It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective.
Moshe Dayan
#48. I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.
Moshe Dayan
#49. Except for the projects in Israel, my being Israeli has contributed negatively to my global activity. It is hard for me, for example, to get projects in the Persian Gulf emirates.
Moshe Safdie
#50. I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality. On the other hand, you can see in the public's identification something very positive.
Moshe Safdie
#51. There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.
Moshe Kasher
#52. There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.
Moshe Safdie
#53. I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past.
Moshe Safdie
#54. So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.
Moshe Sharett
#55. I believe that the unity of mind and body is an objective reality. They are not just parts somehow related to each other, but an inseparable whole while functioning. A brain without a body could not think.
Moshe Feldenkrais
#56. Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.
Moshe Dayan
#57. Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?
Moshe Dayan
#58. The Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people,
Moshe Ya'alon
#59. We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.
Moshe Sharett
#60. I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.
Moshe Dayan
#61. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Moshe Arens
#62. I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.
Moshe Sharett
#63. Most important, don't do anything you don't want.
Moshe Dayan
#64. Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population.
Moshe Dayan
#65. The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth.
Moshe Sharett
#66. I am against intervention by a foreign power against us.
Moshe Sharett
#67. In any case, [y]ou can't teach a monkey to speak and you can't teach an Arab to be democratic. You're dealing with a culture of thieves and robbers. Muhammad, their prophet, was a robber and a killer and a liar. The Arab destroys everything he touches.
Moshe Feiglin
#68. 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
#69. 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.
Moshe Dayan
#70. For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained.
Moshe Kupferman
#71. I am sure the majority of Iranians want a peace agreement with Israel and want Iran to integrate with the international community and accept its universal values.
Moshe Katsav
#72. Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.
Moshe Safdie
#73. Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?
Moshe Safdie
#74. Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.
Moshe Safdie
#75. 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
#76. Aggressive and irresponsible steps endanger the peace and stability of the world, and the international community feels the need to protect itself from Iran.
Moshe Katsav
#77. When I first started comedy, me and my friends were kids. I claim - although I know that it's a spurious and probably untrue claim - that we were the first generation of kids to act black.
Moshe Kasher
#78. After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.
Moshe Dayan
#79. The Iranian regime doesn't express the wishes and values of the Iranian people.
Moshe Katsav
#80. I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.
Moshe Sharett
#81. If Iran does not change its policies, it won't be able to integrate into the international community and will become even more isolated than it is now, which likely will have a negative impact on the Iranian people.
Moshe Katsav
#82. If we lose this war, I'll just start another in my wife's name.
Moshe Dayan
#83. Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so.
Moshe Feldenkrais
#84. A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal.
Moshe Dayan
#85. Ultimately, we become aware of most of what is going on within us mainly through the muscles.
Moshe Feldenkrais
#86. I want my children to be able to meet and play and communicate with many other children on their own, not only when they are driven somewhere. I want them to grow up in an environment that is not just a place where people sleep but where people work.. and where people enjoy themselves.
Moshe Safdie
#87. We live in a complicated, oppressive world with enormous cities and vast populations, and I try to contribute by making it more light and open and calm.
Moshe Safdie
#88. I believe that the person who never avowed his unavowed dreams somewhere in his unconscious, in his dreams, feels he has wasted his life, and when he is old he will realize it.
Moshe Feldenkrais
#89. I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them.
Moshe Sharett
#90. By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime.
Moshe Sharett
#91. You can't teach a monkey to speak and you can't teach an Arab to be democratic,
Moshe Feiglin
#92. What you truly learn best will appear to you later as your own discovery.
Moshe Feldenkrais
#93. Part of your process of becoming an adult is admitting to yourself that The Doors were a shitty band.
Moshe Kasher
#94. And as a stand-up comic, that's the one thing I'm a little uncomfortable with. I'm not uncomfortable with sincerity in my regular life, but, like in terms of my product that I offer, I think that it's weird, because comics used to be way more sincere in the '80s.
Moshe Kasher
#95. An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?.
Moshe Sharett
#96. The Iranian regime gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon.
Moshe Katsav
#97. We have no solution ... You [Palestinians] shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave, and we will see where this process leads.
Moshe Dayan
#98. I am proud to be the president of the state of Israel.
Moshe Katsav
#99. Inequality makes the pie of things smaller, yet economists measure the size of the pie not by how much substance it contains but by its price. It is entirely possible, therefore, for economists to measure as growth what most people experience as economic decline.
Moshe Adler
#100. 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.
Moshe Dayan
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