Quotes of Theodor Herzl - somelinesforyou

“ We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ 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

“ The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ Is Palestine or Argentine to be preferred? The Society will take what is given to it and what is selected by the public opinion of the Jewish people. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ If you will it, it is no dream. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ If you will it, it is no dream. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ I wrote walking, standing, lying down, on the street, at the table, at night when it roused me out of sleep... I know now, and was even aware of it throughout this entire period of turbulent productivity, that much of what I wrote was wild and fantastic. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ I wrote walking, standing, lying down, on the street, at the table, at night when it roused me out of sleep... I know now, and was even aware of it throughout this entire period of turbulent productivity, that much of what I wrote was wild and fantastic. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ 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

“ What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ 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

“ We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny. ”

- Theodor Herzl

“ But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home. ”

- Theodor Herzl
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