Jew Quotes - Page 24

• He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.

  Pearl S. Buck

  People, Safety, Earth

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “Peony: A Novel of China”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know, they get all this neat technology and pass all these humanitarian laws, and then something happens: there's an economic crisis, or science makes some discovery people can't deal with. And boom, people go right back to burning Jews and selling pieces of the true Cross. Don't you ever make the mistake of thinking that mortals want to live in a golden age. They hate thinking.

  Kage Baker

  Mistake, Hate, Technology

  Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.217, Macmillan

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• The adult must seem to mislead the child, and the Master the dog. They misread the signs. Their ignorance and their wishes twist everything. You are so sure you know what the promise promised! And the danger is that when what He means by ‘wind’ appears you will ignore it because it is not what you thought it would be—as He Himself was rejected because He was not like the Messiah the Jews had in mind.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  Dog, Children, Ignorance

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• If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are not God`s chosen people.

  Martin Luther

  Land, People, Jerusalem

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• They were French, they were Jews, and they were you.

  Markus Zusak

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.352, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Oh,' she said. 'I have never seen a Jew before. Can I see his horns?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Horns, Said

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see that what united us was more than what divided us. That to be a human being matters more than to be a Jew or a Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox. p. 361

  Geraldine Brooks

  People, Catholic, Tests

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• The drama bug strikes hardest with Jews, homosexuals and plump women who wear their hair in bangs. These are people who, for one reason or another, desperately crave attention

  David Sedaris

  Drama, Hair, People

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• I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Respect, Skin Color

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.

  Anne Lamott

  Religious, Israel, Justice

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.26, Anchor

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• Liesel shrugged away entirely from the crowd and entered the tide of Jews, weaving through them till she grabbed hold of his arm with her left hand. His face fell on her. It reached down as she tripped, and the Jew,the nasty Jew, helped her up. It took all of his strength.

  Markus Zusak

  Hands, Left Hand, Crowds

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.488, RH Childrens Books

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• For my own part,' said Captain Aubrey, 'I have no notion of disliking a man for his beliefs, above all if he was born with them. I find I can get along very well with Jews or even...' The P of Papists was already formed, and the word was obliged to come out as Pindoos.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Men, Captains, Belief

  Patrick O'Brian (2011). “The Wine-Dark Sea (Vol. Book 16) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.54, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Summer came. For the books thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews.

  Markus Zusak

  Summer, Book, Color

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.342, RH Childrens Books

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• What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.

  Franz Kafka

  Common

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• Shame about how we’re gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It’s the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is “sodomy’’.

  John Green

  Mean, Tennessee, Half

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.35, Penguin

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• It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one Cambodian'. Specific books, perhaps; but as far as one can tell, no paintings or sculptures. The difference between us and the artists of the 1920's is that they they thought such a work of art could be made. Perhaps it was a certain naivete that made them think so. But it is certainly our loss that we cannot.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Book, Loss

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• We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings differently. Blacks developed the blues. Jews complained, we just never thought of putting it to music.

  Jon Stewart

  Years, Suffering, Persecution

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• Forget what you might have heard. There are no separate corps of angels for agnostics, atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Buddhists, Unitarians, Hindus, Druids, Shintoists, Wiccans, and so on. To put a spin on the old saying, it's okay if you don't believe in angels. We believe in you.

  Cynthia Leitich Smith

  Buddhist, Atheist, Believe

  Cynthia Leitich Smith (2010). “Eternal”, p.91, Candlewick Press

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• ...Bin Laden's quotes from the Quaran resonated in my brain: "When you meet the unbelievers, strike them in the neck." "If you do not go out and fight, God will punish you severely and put others in your place." "Wherever you find the polytheists, kill them, seize them, besiege them, ambush them." "You who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians as friends; they are allies only to each other. Anyone who takes them as an ally becomes one of them.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Christian, Believe, Fighting

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• Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers?

  Sam Harris

  Son, Knowing, Doubt

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.99, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.

  Walker Percy

  Hymns, Waiting, Catholic

  Walker Percy (2011). “Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World”, p.206, Open Road Media

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• What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball… I have no special corner in my heart for the ghetto: I am at home in the entire world, where there are clouds and birds and human tears.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Pain, Home, Heart

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• I think I may well be a Jew.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, May, Wells

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, Faber & Faber

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• The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.

  Markus Zusak

  Winning, Loses, Uncertainty

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.194, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe to them collective crimes, collective acts and opinions. "The Serbs have massacred…", "The English have devastated…", "The Jews have confiscated…", "The Blacks have torched", "The Arabs refuse…". We blithely express sweeping judgments on whole peoples, calling them "hardworking" and "ingenious", or "lazy", "touchy", "sly", "proud", or "obstinate". And sometimes this ends in bloodshed." – Amin Maalouf "On Identity

  Amin Maalouf

  People, Lazy, Together

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