The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
—Golda Meir (1898–1978) Israeli Head of State
No race has ever surpassed the Jewish descriptions of either the beauties or the terrors of the nature which environs man.
—Charles William Eliot (1834–1926) American Educationalist
Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That’s what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is—One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.
—Lenny Bruce (1925–66) American Comedian, Writer, Social Critic, Satirist
While the Jews of the United States have remained loyal to their faith, and their race traditions, they have become indissolubly incorporated in the great army of American Citizenship.
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Explorer
If I am right the Germans will say I was a German, and the French will say I was a Jew; if I am wrong the Germans will say I was a Jew and the French will say I was a German.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
—Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) Romanian-born American Writer, Professor, Political Activist
The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land. If a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy, lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and actors were also the heroes?
—George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
—William Blake (1757–1827) English Poet, Painter, Printmaker
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
—George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist
No individual should be subjected anywhere, by reason of the fact that he is a Jew, to a denial of any common right or opportunity enjoyed by non-Jews.
—Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) American Jurist
From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.
—Karl Marx (1818–1883) German Philosopher, Economist
They are a piece of stubborn antiquity, compared with which Stonehenge is in its nonage. They date beyond the Pyramids.
—Charles Lamb (1775–1834) British Essayist, Poet
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 (1933–2018) American Novelist, Short-story Writer
They are not Jews in America; they are American citizens.
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American Head of State
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
—Lionel Trilling (1905–75) American Literary Critic
We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) American Social Reformer
A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.
—Philip Roth (1933–2018) American Novelist, Short-story Writer
Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?
—Henry Miller (1891–1980) American Novelist
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