Jerusalem Quotes - Page 2

• What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.

  Tertullian

  Athens

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• Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.

  Barack Obama

  Israel

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• 90 percent, 85 to 90 percent of Israeli citizens in Judea-Samaria, in the West Bank, live in clusters, in urban blocks. Everybody understands that if we were to have a solution then those blocks would stay in Israel. And that's where you saw these cranes; that's where Israelis live. In the Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem, everybody understands, they will stay.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Block, Israel, Citizens

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

  Josephus

  Father, Cities, Reputation

  Flavius Josephus (1825). “The Works of Josephus--: Containing Twenty Books of the Jewish Antiquities, Seven Books of the Jewish War, and the Life of Josephus”, p.128

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• The prophet Zechariah warns that any nation that touches Jerusalem will be cut off.

  David Wilkerson

  Cutting, Prophet, Nations

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• Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer?

  Ahmed Yassin

  Kings, People, Leader

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• We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Islamic, Israel, Population

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds of the unhappy Jews at the siege of Jerusalem hid themselves in the darkest and vilest subterranean recesses, and when, besides those who were hunted out, no less than two thousand were killed by being buried under the ruins of their hiding places."

  Frederic Farrar

  Crush, Prayer, Fall

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• In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground, olive trees; but three tenses dizzy my consciousness: my present, the time of Jesus, and that of the photographer, all this under the instance of 'reality' - and no longer through the elaborations of the text, whether fictional or poetic, which itself is never credible down to the root.

  Roland Barthes

  Jesus, Reality, August

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• That's why I'm glad Jesus died when he did. Because if he lived to be 40, he would have ended up like Elvis. He was famous already at that point. If he lived to be 40, he'd be walking around Jerusalem with a big fat beer gut and black side burns going, Damn, I'm the son of God. Give me a cheeseburger and french fries right now.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Jesus, Humor

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". m.imdb.com. 1993.

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• Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.

  William Blake

  Christian, Lying, Building Up

  William Blake, Morton D. Paley (1998). “Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion”, p.258, Princeton University Press

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• But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Born

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• The legendary missionary journey of St. Paul, which led to the foundation of the British church, presupposes the existence of a Jewish community - always the initial object of his propaganda - even before the capture of Jerusalem by Titus in the year 70.

  Cecil Roth

  Journey, Years, Community

  "A History of the Jews in England". Book by Cecil Roth, 3rd edition, p. 1, 1964.

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• The Amorites founded Jerusalem, they formed the Nordic weft in later Galilee, that is, in the "pagan region" whence some day Jesus was to come.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Jesus, Pagan, Nordic

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, 1930.

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• The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

  Ehud Olmert

  Numbers, Borders, Palestinian

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• I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Fighting, Swear To God, Giving

  OneJerusalem.org, January 21, 2002.

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• Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided - not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.

  Golda Meir

  Cities, Half, Sovereignty

  Time Magazine, February 19, 1973.

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• The rabbis, the Jewish religious people, the priests of the temple of Jerusalem, they were learned fools. They could not tolerate Jesus. The learned fools are always disturbed by the blessed fools. They had to murder him because his very presence was uncomfortable; his very presence was such a pinnacle of peace, love, compassion and light, that all the learned fools became aware that their whole being was at stake. If this man lived then they were fools, and the only way to get rid of this man was to destroy him so they could. again become the learned people of the race.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Jesus, Blessed

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• Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  United, Divided

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• I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.

  Bille August

  Television, Four, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Trying, Rifles, Praying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

  David Edward Kirk

  Kings, Theatre, Riding

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• I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

  Ben Nicholson

  Cities, Addresses, Architect

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• I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple and the city, all we took is a little book, that's all. Not treasures, we had no treasures. They were ransacked, taken away. But the book - the little book - and this book produced more books, thousands, hundreds of thousands of books, and in the book we found our memory, and our attachment to that memory is what kept us alive.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Book, Taken

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.

  Bille August

  Dream, Issues, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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