Jew Quotes - page 3

In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age? (Sigmund Freud)
If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now. View quote
Marc Chagall
A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will. The Jews believe in free will. They believe that man shapes his own life. I reject that doctrine philosophically. In that respect I am not a Jew. View quote
Albert Einstein
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. View quote
Albert Einstein
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be represented as a bête noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English! View quote
Albert Einstein
My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph. View quote
Albert Einstein
As long as I'm sitting in the chair, there's not going to be any Jew appointed to that court. [No Jew] can be right on the criminal-law issue. View quote
Richard Nixon
Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. That was the business of hiding a Jew. View quote
Markus Zusak
My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything. View quote
Isabelle Huppert
We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals. (Arthur Keith)
I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown. View quote
Duff Goldman
Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America. View quote
Isaac Mizrahi
As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan. View quote
Jan Schakowsky
I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one. View quote
Jean-Marie Messier
For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be. View quote
Lionel Blue
I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew. View quote
Lionel Blue
My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town. View quote
Stanley Donen
I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew. View quote
Theodore Bikel
Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history. (Delmore Schwartz)
From the 3rd century onwards, orthodox Christianity, based on a Hebrew story and worshipping the Jew Jesus, also led many campaigns of anti-Semitism. View quote
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide. View quote
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
For those denounced by their smug, horrible children For a peppermint-star and the praise of the Perfect State, For all those strangled, gelded or merely starved To make perfect states; for the priest hanged in his cassock, The Jew with his chest crushed in and his eyes dying, The revolutionist lynched by the private guards To make perfect states, in the names of the perfect states. View quote
Stephen Vincent Benét
We're ashamed of what we are. That's why we feel that we have to get rid of the values of our glorious history and run to learn from other, new nations. Don't I look to you like a man of the world? Don't I speak to the leading businessmen in the world? And it's no problem that I'm a Jew, and a proud Jew who wears a skullcap everywhere. That's my symbol and my identity. View quote
Lev Leviev