Isaac Leib Peretz quotes - page 3

We become more united in exile than in Palestine. (Isaac Leib Peretz)
The ancient Greeks and Romans tell of a golden age in the past.... Our Messiah alone belongs to the future. He still has to make his appearance, and not solely for the benefit of his own people. The whole world must be judged and redeemed. View quote
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Nobody ever stubs his toe against a mountain. It's the little temptations that bring a man down. View quote
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Genuine melody sings itself without a voice. It sings inside, within the heart, in man's very entrails! View quote
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Ghetto is impotence. Cultural cross-fertilization is the only possibility for human development. View quote
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You are lighting a fire beneath the open sky, while your own family in your own house is freezing. View quote
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It is a key to open a heaven after death and not a key with which to force open the portals of this life. View quote
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The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. View quote
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This means, in popular imagination, that bread and clothes shall grow, ready-made, on trees. Do you have more winged ideals? View quote
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There are melodies that must have words... and melodies that sing themselves without words. View quote
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As victors, you may become the bureaucracy: doling out to each his bit as in a poorhouse, assigning to each his task as in a prison. (Isaac Leib Peretz)
The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael! View quote
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[About loyalty to Judaism] Don't assume, Jewish intellectuals, that you are doing your duty by working... for so-called Humanity.... You are lighting a fire beneath the open sky, while your own family in your own house is freezing. View quote
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A Jew waits for Messiah to come and redeem the world from fear and pain, from the cataclysmic conflicts between rich and poor. All shall enjoy the earth. This means, in popular imagination, that bread and clothes shall grow, ready-made, on trees. Do you have more winged ideals? View quote
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I fear you. As victors, you may become the bureaucracy: doling out to each his bit as in a poorhouse, assigning to each his task as in a prison. And you will exterminate the creator of new worlds,-the free human will, and stop up the purest well of human happiness-the power of the one to face thousands, to stand up to peoples and generations. View quote
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