Israel Zangwill Quotes

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• The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

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  Life, Forgiveness, Memories

  Israel Zangwill (1921). “The Voice of Jerusalem”

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• The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

  Israel Zangwill

  Inspirational, Past, Imitation

  Israel Zangwill (1921). “The Voice of Jerusalem”

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• America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

  Israel Zangwill

  Race, Europe, America

  The Melting-Pot act 1 (1908). This passage popularized the term melting pot in the sense of an amalgamation of peoples (the jstor database shows that an earlier usage with this meaning occurs in the American Journal of Sociology, July 1906, and a reference to public education as a "melting-pot" for immigrants appears in the Los Angeles Times, 28 June 1891). See Baudouin 1; Jimmy Carter 3; Crevecoeur 1; Ellison 2; Hayward 1; Jesse Jackson 1

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• As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.

  Israel Zangwill

  Long, Common, Bearable

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• It takes two men to make one brother.

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  Motivational, Brother, Sibling

  Israel Zangwill (1917). “The Principle of Nationalities”

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• A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

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  Clever, Stupid, Silly

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• The Land of Israel needs a People and the People of Israel needs a Land.

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  Israel, Land, People

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• Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.

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  Change, Mad, I Can

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• You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

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  Self Respect, Trying, Faults

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• You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries.

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  Thinking, Islands, Race

  Israel Zangwill (2015). “The Melting Pot”, p.38, Israel Zangwill

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• No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

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  Real, Race, America

  Israel Zangwill, Edna Nahshon (2006). “From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill's Jewish Plays : Three Playscripts”, p.288, Wayne State University Press

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• The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail. And whereas the unlike is normally situated at a safe distance, the Jews bring the unlike into the heart of every milieu, and must there defend a frontier line as large as the world.

  Israel Zangwill

  Distance, Heart, Law

  Israel Zangwill (1921). “The Voice of Jerusalem”

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• There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

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  Writing, People, Age

  "The Celibates' Club: Being the United Stories of The Bachelors' Club and The Old Maids' Club".

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• You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.

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  Wise, Analogies, May

  Israel Zangwill (1917). “The Principle of Nationalities”

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• Selfishness is the only real atheism.

  Israel Zangwill

  Real, Atheism, Selfishness

  Israel Zangwill (1901). “Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People”, p.1004, Library of Alexandria

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• New York is the great stone desert.

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  New York, Desert, Stones

  Israel Zangwill (2015). “The Melting Pot”, p.109, Israel Zangwill

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• Let us start a new religion with one commandment, "Enjoy thyself.

  Israel Zangwill

  Enjoy, Commandments, Thyself

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• Everything changes but change

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  Change, Things Change

  Israel Zangwill (1921). “Works of Israel Zangwill: Italian fantasies”

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• In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.

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  Voice, Age, Jerusalem

  Isidore Singer, Israel Zangwill (1924). “A Religion of Truth, Justice and Peace: A Challenge to Church and Synagogue to Lead in the Realization of the Social and Peace Gospel of the Hebrew Prophets”

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• Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far more vitally, than a scientific generalization unifies a chaos of phenomena. Time and Space are only the conditions through which spiritual facts struggle. Hence I have here and there permitted myself liberties with these categories.

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  Spiritual, Art, Struggle

  Israel Zangwill (1898). “Dreamers of the Ghetto”

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• The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.

  Israel Zangwill

  Believe, People, History

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• What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!

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  Ignorance, Doctors, Giving

  Israel Zangwill (1908). “Dreamers of the Ghetto”, p.558, Library of Alexandria

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• Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

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  Atheism, Dogma, Ideals

  Israel Zangwill (1937). “Speeches, Articles, and Letters of Israel Zangwill”

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• Until mankind heeds the message on the Hebrew trumpet blown, and the faith of the whole world's people is the faith that is our own.

  Israel Zangwill

  People, World, Messages

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• The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

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  Lying, Men, Doe

  Israel Zangwill (2016). “The Big Bow Mystery”, p.91, Oldcastle Books

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