Jew Quotes - Page 23

• Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.

  Sarah Silverman

  Skills, People, Black

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• I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  Steven Spielberg

  Conflict, Sensitivity, Palestinian

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• When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.

  Steven Spielberg

  Children, Choices, Born

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• I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

  Steven Spielberg

  War, Cities, People

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• When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.

  Steven Spielberg

  Mother, Hands, Symphony

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• The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Party, Hero

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• The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being.

  Lysander Spooner

  Jesus, Kings, Support

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?

  Ben Stein

  Party, Israel, Realizing

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• Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.

  Ben Stein

  Israel, Years, Glee

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• In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

  Jack Steinberger

  Education, Children, School

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• We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

  Barbra Streisand

  Exercise, Hype, Ties

  Barbra Streisand's Letter to Democrats, www.foxnews.com. April 2, 2001.

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• Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Growing Up, Real, Father

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.81, Anchor

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• I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

  Len Wein

  Nature, New York, Character

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

  Elie Wiesel

  Coincidence, Jewish History

  "Elie Wiesel recounts 350 years of the Jewish experience in America" by Jessica Ullian, www.bu.edu. November 5, 2004.

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• I'm a traditional Jew with an orthodox background, and it informs much of my approach to science. Of course I think it's very important that if you have those sorts of backgrounds you don't impose them on other people as a clinician, of course.

  Robert Winston

  Thinking, People, Important

  "Epiphanies: Lord Robert Winston". "The Spirit of Things" with Rachael Kohn, www.abc.net.au. June 4, 2006.

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• Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Suffering

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• Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Men, Garden, Humanity

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

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• Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it. It puts what should be above things as they are. It does not know Jew from Greek nor slave from master.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Beautiful, Book, Greek

  Czeslaw Milosz, “Incantation”

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• But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. We’ve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went there the day before, saying things because we have said them before, and this seems like the work of a different sort of animal, contrary to our plan, and this is very very bad.

  Dave Eggers

  Inspiration, Animal, Frustration

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.287, Pan Macmillan

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• The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy of Jew is not Arab, the enemy of youth is not the old, the enemy of hip is not redneck, the enemy of Chicano is not gringo and the enemy of women is not men. We all have the same enemy. The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.

  Tom Robbins

  Redneck, Men, White

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• It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I?

  Christopher Moore

  Past, Guilt, Moments

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• After she left everything fell apart. No Jew was safe. There were rumors of unfathomable things, and because we couldn't fathom them we failed to believe them, until we had no choice and it was too late. p 8

  Nicole Krauss

  Believe, Choices, Rumor

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.8, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know how much of that killer instinct lurks in the darkness. I used to think the house-burning paranoia was the result of some upper-middle-class fear regarding the potential destruction of a half-million-dollar Westchester house the size of a matchbox. But then I realized the fear stemmed from something far less complex: we're not used to fire. Candles are a staple of the Judaic existence and, like many suburban residents before us, we're pretty bad Jews.

  Sloane Crosley

  Cat, Thinking, Fire

  Sloane Crosley (2008). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.15, Penguin

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• God, you Jews are truly exotic." Exotic? She should only know the Greenblatts. Or Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sharpstein, my father's friends. Or for that matter, my cousin Tovah. Exotic? I mean, they're nice, but hardly exotic with their endless bickering over the best way to combat indigestion or how far back to sit from the television set.

  Woody Allen

  Cousin, Father, Nice

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• The Christians gave Him Sunday, the Jews gave Him Saturday, and the Muslims gave Him Friday. God has a three-day weekend.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Christian, Sarcastic

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