Judaism Quotes - Page 3

• Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Abstract, Creeds, Institutions

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• What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is

  Brad Thor

  Writing, Thinking, Islam

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• Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced . . . can you realize how much the modern world owes to the Hebrew prophets, whose monotheism and moral teachings entered into Christianity and Islam.

  Carlton J. H. Hayes

  Teaching, Sacrifice, Islam

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• Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.

  Anne Frank

  Christian, Responsibility, Fighting

  Diary, 22 May 1944

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• It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.

  Theodor Herzl

  Land, Want, Blossoming

  Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”

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• The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.

  A. C. Cuza

  Order, People, Giving

  "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

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• It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews. The Jews have never produced a true poet. Heinrich Heine reached the point where he duped himself into a poet, and was rewarded by his versified lies being set to music by our own composers. He was the conscience of Judaism, just as Judaism is the evil conscience of our modern civilization.

  Richard Wagner

  Lying, Civilization, Evil

  "'Das Judenthum in der Musik' ('Judaism in Music')". Essay by Richard Wagner, 1850.

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• Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Roots, Evil

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.336, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.

  Meher Baba

  Understanding, Vegetarian, Worship

  Meher Baba (1977). “The Mastery of Consciousness: An Introduction and Guide to Practical Mysticism and Methods of Spiritual Development”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.

  Edmund Wilson

  Humanity, Causes, Communism

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• Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Views, Important, Point Of View

  "Vidal Sassoon: this much I know". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. September 03, 2011.

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• The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision.

  Adolf Hitler

  Circumcision, Invention, Lost

  "Hitler Speaks". Book by Hermann Rauschning, p. 220, 1939.

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• Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

  Karen Armstrong

  Fundamentalist Religion, Islam, Wiping Out

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• I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.

  Lionel Blue

  Infant, Versions

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• When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the fearful question whether inscrutable Destiny, perhaps for reasons unknown to us poor mortals, did not, with eternal and immutable resolve, desire the final victory of this little nation.

  Adolf Hitler

  Destiny, Long, People

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

  Philip Roth

  Boys, Men, Years

  Portnoy's Complaint (1969)

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• Communism is Judaism. The Jewish Revolution in Russia was in 1918.

  Henry Hamilton Beamish

  Russia, Revolution, Communism

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• For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they recounted of the history of others. Both were written down in the books called the Old Testament, [the Torah] the sacred writings of the Jewish people ... They were the first to arrive at an abstract notion of God and to forbid his representation by images. No other people has produced a greater historical impact from such comparatively insignificant origins and resources.

  John Roberts

  Book, Writing, Impact

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• Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Israel, People, Goal

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• Judaism tells us in many ways how to listen and say 'Hinneni', I am here.

  Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger

  Way

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• The Jew...is not content merely to destroy Christianity, but he preaches the gospel of Judaism; he not only assails the Catholic or the Protestant faith, but he incites to the unbelief, and then imposes on those whose faith he has undermined his own conception of the world, of morality and of life. He is engaged in his historic mission, the annihilation of the religion of Christ.

  Bernard Lazare

  Catholic, World, Morality

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• Some call it Marxism — I call it Judaism.

  Genrikh Yagoda

  Marxism, Jew, Rabbi

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• Politics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law.

  Ira Forman

  Art, Law, America

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• Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Leadership, Thoughtful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism.

  Ernest Renan

  World, Christianity, Masterpiece

  Ernest Renan, Joseph Henry Allen, Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer (1896). “History of the People of Israel ...: Period of Jewish independence and Judea under Roman rule. 1895”

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