Judaism Quotes - Page 2

• Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.

  Moses Mendelssohn

  Revelations, Salvation, Term

  Moses Mendelssohn (2011). “Moses Mendelssohn: Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible”, p.87, UPNE

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• We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel.... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours ... When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do will be to scurry around like drugged roaches in a bottle.

  Rafael Eitan

  Israel, Land, Roaches

  New York Times, April 14, 1983.

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• Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Religious, Philosophical, Ideas

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• It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism. Judaism, nevertheless, together with Hellenism and Christianity is an inalienable component of our Christian Western civilization, the eternal "call to Sinai" against which humanity again and again rebels.

  Hermann Rauschning

  Christian, Civilization, Humanity

  "The Beast From the Abyss". Book by Hermann Rauschning, pp. 155-156, 1941.

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• I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.

  Ted Lange

  Believe, Church, Mosques

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• Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.

  Winston Churchill

  Thoughtful, Men, Race

  "Is the Threat of a Nuclear Iran Fallen on Deaf Ears?". www.beliefnet.com.

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• A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.

  Philip Roth

  Home, Army, Glasses

  Philip Roth, Ross Miller (2008). “Novels & other narratives, 1986-1991”

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• The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly been breached.

  Amos Elon

  War, Energy, Dams

  Amos Elon (2003). “The Pity of it All: A Portrait of German Jews, 1743-1933”

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• So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.

  Will Durant

  Country, Europe, Roles

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• If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am "I"? And if not now, when?

  Hillel the Elder

  Torah, Rabbi, Ifs

  "Pirkei Avot". 1:14,

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• If I had to baptise a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words 'I baptise thee in the name of Abraham'.

  Martin Luther

  Bridges, Names, Stones

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• The difference between the three Abrahamic religions: Christianity - mumbling to the ceiling, Judaism - mumbling to the wall, Islam - mumbling to the floor.

  Bill Maher

  Wall, Differences, Islam

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• You can never betray the people who are dead.

  Anita Brookner

  Betrayal, People, Sunbeams

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• That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the sun set. You are watching the world turn.

  Jeremy Kagan

  Age, World, Sun

  "The Jewish Self: Recovering Spirituality in the Modern World". Book by Jeremy Kagan, 1998.

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• Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Believe, Reality, Suffering

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• It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Relationship, Aquariums, Dating

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• ...the goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot it; kill it. Silence the incessant planning, organizing, running, manipulating, possessing, and processing"... "because these activities preclude awareness of the Divine.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Life, God, Running

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• The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Faith, Christian, Hope

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• Intolerance lies at the core of evil. Not the intolerance that results from any threat or danger. But intolerance of another being who dares to exist. Intolerance without cause. It is so deep within us, because every human being secretly desires the entire universe to himself. Our only way out is to learn compassion without cause. To care for each other simple because that 'other' exists.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Lying, Simple, Compassion

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• Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is - One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.

  Lenny Bruce

  Christian, Deuces, Tribes

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• If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Stars, Power

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.215, Courier Corporation

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• What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.

  Anne Frank

  Christian, Responsibility, Justice

  Diary, 22 May 1944

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• Judaism is not a religion. At best, it is a racial credo, designed to maintain racial cohesion, in this case the Khazar bloodlines.

  Henry Makow

  Cohesion, Cases, Bloodline

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• Germany is the enemy of Judaism and must be pursued with deadly hatred. The goal of Judaism of today is: a merciless campaign against all German peoples and the complete destruction of the nation. We demand a complete blockade of trade, the importation of raw materials stopped, and retaliation towards every German, woman and child.

  Eugene M. Kulischer

  Children, Goal, Hatred

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• We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.

  Goldwin Smith

  Race, Humanity, Triumph

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