Jew Quotes

“Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“God take care of him, because he's my past and my future”
― Simone Elkeles, How to Ruin Your Boyfriend's Reputation

“It's not a pretty world, Papa.'
'I've noticed,' my father said softly.”
― Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev

“For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. For all the anguish this picture of pain will cause you. For the unspeakable mystery that brings good fathers and sons into the world and lets a mother watch them tear at each other’s throats. For the Master of the Universe, whose suffering world I do not comprehend. For dreams of horror, for nights of waiting, for memories of death, for the love I have for you, for all the things I remember, and for all the things I should remember but have forgotten, for all these I created this painting—an observant Jew working on a crucifixion because there was no aesthetic mold in his own religious tradition into which he could pour a painting of ultimate anguish and torment.”
― Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev

“I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: The New King James Version

“An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.”
― Joseph Sobran

“I can lie about my name, I can lie about my school, but how am I going to lie about this fucking nose? "You seem like a very nice person Mr. Porte-Noir, but why do you go around covering the middle of your face like that?" Because suddenly it has taken off, the middle of my face! Because gone is the button of my childhood years, that pretty little thing that people used to look at in my carriage, and lo and behold, the middle of my face has begun to reach out towards God. Porte-Noir and Parsons my ass, kid, you have got J-E-W written right across the middle of your face...”
― Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint

“Had it been the object or the intention of Jesus Christ to establish a new religion, he would undoubtedly have written the system himself, or procured it to be written in his life time. But there is no publication extant authenticated with his name. All the books called the New Testament were written after his death. He was a Jew by birth and by profession.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

“I’ve spent a lifetime trying to NOT think about Israel—deciding it has nothing more to do with me, a diasporist, than the rest of the World’s Bad News on Parade. Israel is like some badly battered child with PTSD who has grown up to batter others.”
― Art Spiegelman

“You see, Yousef, you can't force someone in their hearts to believe the way you do. They all tried and failed. They judged by their own convictions--not even by the truth of the teachings of Isa. No one is above God's judgment. No one has the right to judge for him.”
― Pola Muzyka, Escape The Hezbollah

“There is nothing else to say, so I just murmur, "I know. Thank you for the chance." And I add, "Merry Christmas, Missus Stein."
"We call it Hanukkah, but thank you, Miss Phelan.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“What is the difference between Jew and Christians? We all await the Messiah. You believe He has already come and gone, while we do not. I therefore propose that we await Him together. And when He appears, we can ask Him: were You here before?”
― Elie Wiesel, All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs

“A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.”
― Núria Añó

“Life had altered in the wildest possible way, but it was imperative that they act as if nothing at all had happened.
Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.
That was the business of hiding a Jew.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“The Nazi's were the era of crimes against the Jews and modern corporate governments are the era of silent crimes against humanity.”
― Steven Magee

“The Jew is born as free as the wind, as indomitable as the Judean desert. Why did he mark the boundaries of his homeland so carelessly that it was nearly taken from him? Because for a long time he believed that the Promised Land is, first and foremost, the land where there's no wall to keep him from seeing farther than his cries can carry.”
― Yasmina Khadra, The Attack

“I have never hated the individual Jew -- yourself I have always cherished as a friend, but you will know that I speak in all honesty when I say I have loved you, not because of your race but in spite of it.”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“Kuandika riwaya ya kijasusi kama Kolonia Santita lazima uishi kama Myahudi. Lazima uishi kifikra!”
― Enock Maregesi

“Mpinga Kristo atakuwa Myahudi, kwa sababu Mfalme Daudi alikuwa Myahudi, na Yesu ni Myahudi.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Var det skjebnen som styrte alt dette? I så fall, hva er skjebnen? Er den Gud? Er skjebnen krefter i kosmos? Hvor er Gud og hvor er Djevelen i slike situasjoner?”
― Robert Savosnick, Jeg ville ikke dø

“If the wireless radiation industry is not shut down, they will do more damage to society than what Hitler did to the Jews.”
― Steven Magee

“Look at me. You are the first person to ask about him. Do you understand? No one has ever asked about this man, your relative, Richard. No one has called him down. No one ever printed out his name. You are responsible now. You must remember him in order to honor him.”
― Margaret McMullan, Where the Angels Lived: One Family's Story of Exile, Loss, and Return

“If Auschwitz is unthinkable, then we must rethink the bases of our anthropology (Hannah Arendt). If Auschwitz is unsayable, then we must rethink the bases of testimony (Primo Levi). If Auschwitz is unimaginable, we must give the same attention to an image as we do to what witnesses say.”
― Georges Didi-Huberman

“There is no limit such as the minimum age of both criminal responsibility and punishment in racist regimes! It is even better if the accused is a minor: the regime will exterminate minors much more easily because they cannot resist the purge.
Here is being tried as a Jew: the climax of extrajudicial execution! Being accused without evidence, convicted without a trial, regardless age or criminal capacity! And being punished cruelly! Even more than that: to be exterminated in the womb together with mother!
Hitler's Trial: Genocide! Or the Holocaust: Hitler's Trial!

-To be tried as a Jew-”
― Jeyhun Aliyev Silo

“21:2. Hebrew slave. In biblical narrative the term "Hebrew" is used to identify Israelites only when speaking among foreigners. It is not the standard term for the people, which is rather "Israelite" at first, and "Jew" later.”
― Richard Elliott Friedman, Commentary on the Torah

“Tonight, I risk all." Her laughing eyes turned somber. "Tonight, I reveal all."
"Your kingdom in exchange for your people?"
The shadow of some terrible sorrow silenced him. "A kingdom? What is that to me? I risk my marriage for my people.”
― Tessa Afshar, The Queen's Cook

“So long as there is occupation, there is no Hanukkah.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Only real Jew is the one defending a Palestinian, all others are recruits of the "Fourth Reich".”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“The Real Jew (Sonnet 3135)

Zion and zionism are not the same,
zion is a state of human mind,
zionism is a state of monkey mind -

zion is a glint of hope,
piercing through the torture of tyranny,
tyranny not just foreign but also domestic -

Zion is a promise, not of a mythical territory,
but of duty, duty of a human to stand by a human,
through plague, famine, and persecution,
even against the animals of one's own ethnic kind.

Only real Jew is the one defending a Palestinian,
all others are recruits of the Fourth Reich.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Zion is a promise, not of a mythical territory, but of duty, duty of a human to stand by a human, through plague, famine, and persecution, even against the animals of one's own ethnic kind. Only real Jew is the one defending a Palestinian, all others are recruits of the Fourth Reich.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human