Judaism Quotes - Page 4

• We always come back to the same misunderstanding. The Jews because of their spirit of revolt, their exclusiveness and the Messianic tendencies which animate them are in essence revolutionaries, but they do not realize it and believe that they are working for 'progress.'...but that which they call justice is the triumph of Jewish principles in the world of which the two extremes are plutocracy and socialism. Present day Anti-Semitism is a revolt against the world of today, the product of Judaism.

  Leon V. DePoncins

  Believe, Essence, Two

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• The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.

  Meir Kahane

  Target, Torah, This Life

  Meir Kahane (1973). “Meir Kahane--writings (5732-33): Selected Writings by Meir Kahane from the Year 5732-33 (1971-73).”

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• The difference between hearing and listening is paying attention

  Ruth Messinger

  Differences, Listening, Hearing

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• I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.

  Janet Suzman

  Thinking, Attention, Way

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• I'd say, probably, intellectually I've drawn as much from Judaism as any other faith.

  Barack Obama

  Interview with Cathleen Falsani, www.beliefnet.com. March 27, 2004.

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• As a product of history and faith, Jewish Americans have helped to open our eyes to injustice, to people in need, and to the simple idea that we ought to recognize ourselves in the struggle of our fellow men and women.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Eye, Simple

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• Israel must be able to defend itself - by itself - against any threat.

  Barack Obama

  Israel, Able, Threat

  Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 20, 2013.

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• I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.

  Nahum Goldmann

  Two, Elements, Jewish Life

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• Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.

  Ben Marcus

  Embrace, Complexity, Admission

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• Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion.

  Elie Wiesel

  Biblical

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Now we have to think, not in terms of what is good for an individual or a segment of the population or an organization or a sect of Christianity or Islam or Judaism, we have to think today of what is in the best interest of the whole of our people.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Thinking, Organization, People

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Freemasonry, Judaism, and Occultism, whose alliance and reciprocal interpretation no longer require demonstration.

  Leon V. DePoncins

  Alliances, Interpretation, Demonstration

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• Judaism, Christianity & Islam are innovations on fragments from the periphery of the African cultural and spiritual system.

  James Small

  Spiritual, Innovation, Islam

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• The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists... Keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct known as 'the white race' is destroyed - not 'deconstructed' but destroyed.

  Noel Ignatiev

  Believe, Race, White

  "When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories". Book by Bernestine Singley, harvardmagazine.com. 2002.

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• Anytime that knowledge and a version of the truth are considered to be absolute, fundamentalism is the result, whether the arena is Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or any other religious faith, as well as atheism, conservative or liberal political views, even evolution or intelligent design. Anytime our minds are closed and there is no room for dissent, we are on a slippery slope towards stagnation.

  Carlton Pearson

  Religious, Intelligent, Views

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• According to Miller, Pharisee Judaism is not a religion at all, but a secret society posing as a religion, a "sect with Judaism as a rite." She cites Moses Mendelssohn who wrote "Judaism is not a religion but a Law religionized."

  Edith Starr Miller

  Law, Secret, Pharisees

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• The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.

  Michael Novak

  Empowering, Mind, Christianity

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• If I am right the Germans will say I was a German, and the French will say I was a Jew; If I am wrong the Germans will say I was a Jew and the French will say I was a German.

  Albert Einstein

  Jew, Ifs

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• So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years, they are absolutely correct, but in only one respect-only if they happen to be talking about Judaism.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Religious, Talking, Years

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.35, A&C Black

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• Listening is a prerequisite for action. Listening is a principle for living Jewishly in a globalised world

  Ruth Messinger

  Listening, World, Principles

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• I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

  T Bone Burnett

  Christian, Mean, Kids

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• Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Air, Talking

  Herman Jacob Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, Pauline Kael (1971). “The Citizen Kane book”

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• The concept (of happiness) is universal. In Buddhism, it is called causeless joy, in Christianity, the kingdom of heaven within, and in Judaism it is called ashrei, an inner sense of holiness and health. Is Islam it is called falah, happiness and well-being, and in Hinduism it is called ananda, or pure bliss.

  Marci Shimoff

  Happiness, Buddhism, Joy

  Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline (2009). “Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not saying people should not be free to join whichever reason they choose but should we be forced to live our lives around a belief system that originated somewhere around the fourth or fifth century BC. I cannot see any more reason to base a belief system around Christianity, Judaism or Islam than I can around Lord of the Rings.

  Alan Moore

  People, Islam, Belief

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• Christ remains the most influential figure in history. Any list of world-transforming individuals would no doubt include Moses, Buddha, and Muhammad. Moses, Buddha, and Muhammad, however occupy totally different places in Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam than Christ occupies in Christianity. Moses, Buddha, and Muhammad never professed to perform miracles; indeed they never claimed to be anything more than men. They viewed themselves simply as God's messengers. Christ is the only person in history who has defined a whole religion around his person.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Jesus, Buddhism, Men

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