Judaism Quotes - Page 5

• Orthodox Jews, or, as they are known in the Talmud, the Really Chosen Ones, are committed to the idea that the entire Torah was dictated by God verbatim to Moses at Mount Sinai... Other forms of Judaism dispute this claim, although it does explain certain passages in the first Torah, such as, I'm sorry, am I boring you? and What do you like better, Moses, Lord Almighty or Big Hoohah?

  Jon Stewart

  Sorry, Ideas, Doe

  "Naked Pictures of Famous People". Book by Jon Stewart, 1998.

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• It therefore become essential for the future of Judaism itself that its advancement should be correlated with a similar effort to advance the cause of religion generally.

  Louis Finkelstein

  Aquariums, Effort, Essentials

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• I believe that everybody has the right to believe what they want to believe and to knock somebody's faith and religion is foolish, whatever it may be - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism.

  Nicolas Cage

  Believe, Buddhism, Islam

  "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance - Nicolas Cage interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Growing up we were secular Jews, but what I got out of Judaism at that time in my life was questions. Everything was a question. "Dad, is there a heaven? Is there a hell?" You never could get an answer. That informed a lot of my reasons for getting into Scientology, because they had all the answers. They said I was not my body, not my mind. I don't have a soul; I am an immortal soul. I've lived many lives and I'll live endlessly into the future, and as an immortal soul I have no gender.

  Kate Bornstein

  Growing Up, Dad, Heaven

  "'A Queer and Pleasant Danger': Kate Bornstein, Trans Scientology Survivor". Interview with Nicole Pasulka, www.motherjones.com. May 5, 2012.

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• [Judaism is] ever... mighty in wickedness... when it cursed Moses; when it hated God; when it vowed its sons to demons; when it killed the prophets, and finally when it betrayed to the Praetor and crucified our God Himself and Lord... And so glorying through all its existence in iniquity.

  Hilary of Poitiers

  Son, Wickedness, Betrayed

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• Can it be I am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentuchy, looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P?

  Maxine Kumin

  Jew

  Maxine Kumin (2000). “Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry”

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• The Jewish bourgeoisie are our enemies, not as Jews but as bourgeoisie. The Jewish worker is our brother.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Brother, Enemy, Bourgeoisie

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• Christianity is not a "spiritual" religion, like some religions of the east. It is an intensely "practical" religion, having its moral roots in the practicality of judaism. It was not designed to change the way men think or believe as much as to change the way they act.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Spiritual, Believe, Men

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.

  William Blake

  Jesus, Jew, Englishmen

  'The Everlasting Gospel' (c.1818) (f) l. 1

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• [T]here may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints about my policy towards Israel, they have to realize that the Jews in the U. S. control the entire information and propaganda machine, the large newspapers, the motion pictures, radio and television, and the big companies, and there is a force that we have to take into consideration.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Israel, Machines, Television

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• Let us never stop being vigilant about the Oys which face us. But let us never turn them into our raison d'etre. Let us also celebrate the JOYS.

  Deborah Lipstadt

  Joy, Faces, Celebrate

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• My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

  Anita Diament

  Wedding, Husband, Converting

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• The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tired, Eye, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.9, Modern Library

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• There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

  Robert Benchley

  Humor, People, Worry

  Robert Benchley (1954). “The Benchley Roundup”

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• Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.

  Karen Armstrong

  Buddhism, Compassion, Keys

  "The way we live now: questions for Karen Armstrong; Talking religious liberties". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. April 04, 2004.

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• It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured by his very treatment of them.

  Roy Fuller

  Men, Messages, Vegetarian

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• To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

  George Santayana

  Patriotic, Soul, Patriotism

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2002). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.192, MIT Press

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• If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming

  Ahad Ha'am

  Israel, Wish, Apartheid

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• I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism.

  Moshe Sharett

  Our Generation, Israel, Deceit

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• I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Teaching, Buddhism

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2003.

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• My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.

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  Ram Dass

  Honor, Way, Belief

  "How To Be 'In The Moment' This Holiday Season" by Diana M. Raab, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2015.

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• We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that God is a just and righteous God, and demands righteousness of his children, and demands nothing else. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is our Father. It is Israel who, in bringing us the divine law, has laid the foundation of liberty.

  Lyman Abbott

  Children, Father, Flames

  "Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott".

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• Historically speaking, the Christian religion is nothing but a Jewish sect... After the destruction of Judaism, the extinction of Christian slave morals must follow logically... Ah, the God of the deserts, that crazed, stupid, vengeful Asiatic despot with his power to make laws!

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Stupid

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• [Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen . . . To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no longer a stigma, a meaningless accident of birth from which she could escape . . . It had become a distinction, the essence of her self-hood, what she was, what she wanted to be, not merely what she happened to be.

  Jessie Sampter

  Women, Self, Law

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• I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here.

  Charles Stross

  Atheist, Reform, British

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