It is against their own insoluble problem of being human…

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for…

— Anonymous

“One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue to suffer?…

— Christopher Hitchens

The uppermost idea with Hellenism is to see things as they really are; the uppermost ideas with Hebraism is conduct and obedience.Nothing can do…

— Matthew Arnold

The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience .

— Matthew Arnold

“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos , or the slight buzz…

— Christopher Hitchens

How can we prevent this telescoping of cultures and styles from ending up in kitsch eclecticism, a cool hellenism excluding all critical judgment?

— Nicolas Bourriaud

Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained…

— Eric A. Havelock

Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry,…

— Bernard Berenson

“Greeks and Romans were anti-Mediterranean cultures, in the sense of being at odds with much of the political heritages of Persia, Egypt, and Phoenicia. While…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“But even as the police have clamped down on demonstrators, banning slogans that target Jews instead of Israeli policies, a spike in the number…

— Anonymous

When we say never again, our common humanity dictates that we take a stand against racism, discrimination, anti semitism and staying silent.

— Anonymous

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make…

— Anonymous

The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai.

— Elliott Abrams

You have to take the long view. First, when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai, man has already progressed to the point where a…

— I. F. Stone

The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

— John Quincy Adams