Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Judaism

The major Jewish dietary laws rest on a single premise: Eating meat is a moral compromise. There is a difference between eating a hamburger and eating a bowl of cereal. For one of them, a living creature had to be killed. Should we ever become so casual about the eating of meat that we lose sight of that distinction, a part of our humanity will have shriveled and died.
Harold Kushner (b.1935) American Jewish Religious Leader, Priest

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

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

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

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

The religion of the Jews is, indeed, a light; but it is as the light of the glow-worm, which gives no heat, and illumines nothing but itself
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

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

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

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don’t want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American Judge

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

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

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

If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies – that is, longer than two thousand years
Martin Luther (1483–1546) German Protestant Theologian

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

Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?
Henry Miller (1891–1980) American Novelist

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