Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes

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• Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Inspirational, Kindness, Two

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• For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Positivity, Effort, Miracle

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• We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Believe, Choices, Literature

  "Isaac Singer's Promised City". "City Journal", Summer 1997.

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• It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Lying, Men, Helping

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (2004). “Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to the Letter Writer”

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• What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.

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  Men, Animal, People

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• In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

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  Men, Vegetarianism, Animal Rights

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• When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Betrayal, Self Improvement, Betrayed

  Interviewed in the New York Times Magazine, 3 December 1978.

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• If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Dick Cavett Show", PBS, July 17, 1978.

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• Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Life, Writing, Literature

  "Voices for Life" edited by Dom Moraes, 1975.

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• When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Book, Men, Stories

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• As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Compassion, Vegetarianism

  "Animal life in Jewish tradition: attitudes and relationships". Book by Elijah Judah Schochet, p. 297, 1984.

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• Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.

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  Prayer, Praying, Trouble

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• There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality.

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  Dream, Reality, Sometimes

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations”, p.185, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

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  Inspirational, Thinking, Acting

  "Isaac Bashevis Singer Talks …About Everything". The New York Times Interview, www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.

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• Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is
  unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Men, Vegetarianism, Giving

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• Literature is the memory of humanity.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Memories, Humanity, Literature

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• Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Dark, Night, Mercy

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• I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Food, Vegetarianism, Cooking

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• People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

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  Animal, Vegetarianism, Practice

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• The more you see what other people do, the more you learn about yourself.

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  People, About Yourself

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Burgin (1985). “Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Doubleday Books

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• Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Love, Life, Men

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Burgin (1985). “Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Doubleday Books

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• There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

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  Gun, Men, Animal

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• Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

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  Beach, Ocean, Knowledge

  "The New York Times", December 3, 1978.

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• In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  God, Mills, Flour

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• No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.

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  Relationship, Matter, Enough

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Burgin (1985). “Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Doubleday Books

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