Quotes of Israelite - somelinesforyou

“ If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words "I baptize thee in the name of Abraham. ”

- Martin Luther

“ Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. ”

- Golda Meir

“ I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, and Confucian. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew. ”

- Philip Massinger

“ There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. ”

- Bible

“ No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than what befell them in the twentieth, the century of the Holocaust. ”

- Benjamin Netanyahu

“ The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own. ”

- Robert Ingersoll

“ Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. ”

- Bible

“ Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is. ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name? ”

- Billy Connolly

“ Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree. ”

- Karl Barth

“ I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent. ”

- James G. Watt

“ A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew! Now, infidel, I have you on the hip. - The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew. - King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. ”

- Bible

“ It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims. ”

- Judith Butler

“ But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles. ”

- Bible

“ Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew? ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ At this place, Jews have prayed throughout the generations, and it is fitting that the message of brotherhood should go out from here. ”

- Ehud Barak

“ My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything. ”

- Isabelle Huppert

“ He tells me flatly there's no mercy for me in heaven because I am a Jew's daughter; and he says you are no good member of the commonwealth, for in converting Jews to Christians you raise the price of pork. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here. ”

- Golda Meir

“ Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere. ”

- Lionel Trilling

“ 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

“ Who hates the Jews more than the Jew? ”

- Henry Miller

“ The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves. ”

- Albert Goldman

“ 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

“ I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog. ”

- Jonathan Miller
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