Jew Quotes - Page 15

• I'm not an Orthodox Jew, I don't practise much in the way of Jewish religion, but I am very Jewish and I think it probably does indeed influence what I do.

  Michael Marmot

  Thinking, Doe, Way

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• If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical way. I think it is truer, or in any case, less misleading, to say that God is an old Jew with a white beard whom I love, than to say that God is the ground of being and meaning, or to say that God is a name denoting the ultimate mystery. I prefer the bold primitive colors of the Biblical way of describing God.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Philosophical, Biblical, Thinking

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I want to tell you that Israel is a democracy and every citizen is automatically registered to vote. There's a commitment in our declaration of independence, guaranteed under Israel's law, that all our citizens, Arab and Jews, alike, have the right to vote.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Commitment, Israel, Law

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Why can't the black man have a God? What's so wrong when a black man says his God will protect him form his white foe? If Jehovah can slay Philistines for the Jews, why can't Allah slay crackers for the so-called Negro?

  Malcolm X

  Men, White, Black

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.

  Nan Goldin

  Guilt, Priests, Psychiatrist

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• "The State of the Jews" was not a title of a country. It was a title of a futuristic novel.

  Amos Oz

  Country, Titles, States

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Israel is imperfect, of course it is - a far cry from the monumental dreams of the founding fathers. One of the reasons is that their dreams were unrealistic. They were bigger than life. These were messianic dreams, dreams about total redemption for the Jews, for the world. Such dreams do not come true, not in their entirety.

  Amos Oz

  Dream, Father, Israel

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• The importance of the term "genocide" for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it is a word created in the wake of the Shoah in Europe to describe what happens when a people are targeted by a government for extermination, as were the Jews of Europe, and which is the term used in the most important international law related to concerned Indigenous Peoples, as the only international human rights law that pertains specifically to collectivities of people rather than individuals.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Rights, Government, Europe

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Until today the rights of people have always been put forward by a few individuals acting in the name of the masses. Today instead of people no longer want to be represented; each wants to speak for himself and participate directly - it's the same for the Negroes, for the Jews, for women.

  Indira Gandhi

  Rights, Names, People

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I know many Catholic priests and nuns who use the Buddhist teachings to become better Catholics, and Jews who use them to become better Jews. Why not?! It just takes us towards more deeply recognizing our original nature, which is what we all share after all.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Buddhist, Teaching, Catholic

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• If anyone wants one my advise is to go where the orthodox Jews shop, because when it comes to a big black fedora, the guys with ringlets and long black coats definitely know a stylish hat when they see one. You want to get it home and use a hot steaming kettle, and bob's your uncle - you have a hat with all the right curves!

  Terry Pratchett

  Uncles, Home, Curves

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• One of the great things about America is that we have the freedom to worship or not worship as we please. It doesn't matter whether you're a Christian, Jew, Muslim. It doesn't matter whether you're an evangelical or a Catholic or a moderate Jew. You're entitled to worship - or an agnostic or atheist.

  Karl Rove

  Christian, Atheist, America

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• That was unfortunate. I should have compared religion with religion and compared Islam not with Trinity College but with Jews, because the number of Jews who have won Nobel Prizes is phenomenally high.

  Richard Dawkins

  College, Should Have, Numbers

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Ironically, I originally wrote the tweet with Jews and thought, That might give offense. And so I thought I better change it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Giving, Might, Tweet

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• I think more than 20 percent of Nobel Prizes have been won by Jews.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Nobel, Percent

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• For example, when my father was able to buy a secondhand car in the late 1930s, and he took us to the countryside for a weekend, if we looked for a motel to stay in we had to see if it said "restricted" on it. "Restricted" meant no Jews.

  Noam Chomsky

  Father, Weekend, Car

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• There's an interesting book called The Fugu Plan, written by Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz, which describes the circumstances when European Jews came to Japan, a semi-feudal society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Book, Japan, Interesting

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• If you take a look at places like Harvard, it's striking. In the early ,50s, I think there were a handful of Jewish professors, three or four. But by the 1960s, there were Jewish deans and administrators. In fact, one of the reasons why MIT became a great university was because they admitted Jews whereas Harvard did not.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Three, Looks

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• We probably have, right now, after the Civil Rights movement - and this was very unfortunate - the most glaring time of giving up on Africa, saying we're Americans. We are Americans. I'm not arguing that point. So are the Italians. So are the Germans. So are the Jews. We're Americans with an historical geography of origins outside of the United States as all people, maybe except the indigenous Americans who came here so long ago, who have generations of people whose historical origins are right here but whose initial historical origins are somewhere in Asia.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Giving Up, Rights, Long Ago

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• Jews are told that they should spend their lives helping others and when they make a lot of money it really bothers them. So, as a way to decrease their guilt, they try to help the underdog. They think, "Why should I be rich when so many suffer?" They feel better once they run to the party that claims to defend the underdog, the Democrats.

  Jackie Mason

  Running, Party, Feel Better

  Source: spectator.org

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• Older Jews think of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and see themselves as siding with the working class and the poor, so they continue to vote the way they do.

  Jackie Mason

  Thinking, Class, Way

  Source: spectator.org

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• I'm not anti-anything. I'm not anti-Jew or Gentile, I'm not anti-white, but I am pro-black. I am pro my people. And I love us so much that it gets on my nerves when we do stupid things.

  Stephen A. Smith

  Stupid, White, People

  Source: www.theroot.com

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• [Moses] Mendelssohn was a religious Jew. I felt sorry for him.

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, Sorry, Moses

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Christians call it the "Sacrifice of Isaac," and Jews call it the "Binding of Isaac."

  Elie Wiesel

  Christian, Sacrifice, Isaac

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic. Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects (in general) the small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dwarves, People, Imagination

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

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