--- title: "1 Antisemitism Quotes By Phillip Adams" description: "1 Antisemitism quotes by Phillip Adams. Plus more from Phillip Adams and more Antisemitism sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/980/phillip-adams-26945_antisemitism_i-became-aware-of-jews-in-my-early-teens_1682168.png" --- > [“I became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not that I was Christian – I’d been an atheist since I was five. But my father, a Congregational…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/i-became-aware-of-jews-in-my-early-teens-as-i-started-to-pick-up-the/) [Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/980/phillip-adams-26945_antisemitism_i-became-aware-of-jews-in-my-early-teens_1682168.png) ## Other authors on Antisemitism - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-christopher-hitchens-23938.jpg) Christopher Hitchens 20 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antisemitism/christopher-hitchens/) - [Phyllis Goldstein 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antisemitism/phyllis-goldstein/) ## More by Phillip Adams > [Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/most-people-can-do-extraordinary-things-if-they-have-the-confidence/) [Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/) > [Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/advertising-men-and-politicians-are-dangerous-if-they-are-separated/) [Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/) > [The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/the-internet-provides-a-delivery-system-for-pathological-states-of/) [Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/) > [Later, in a different home, I befriended a eucalypt, using a resilient bough as a trampoline. Learning nothing from having plummeted from the peppercorn,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/later-in-a-different-home-i-befriended-a-eucalypt-using-a-resilient/) [Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/) > [“I've spent a life-time attacking religious beliefs and have not wavered from a view of the universe that many would regard as bleak. Namely,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/i-ve-spent-a-life-time-attacking-religious-beliefs-and-have-not/) [Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/) > [Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/marx-was-wrong-religion-is-not-the-opiate-of-the-people-opium/) [Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/) > [The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/the-book-can-produce-an-addiction-as-fierce-as-heroin-or-nicotine/) [Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/) > [“I became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/i-became-aware-of-jews-in-my-early-teens-as-i-started-to-pick-up-the/) [Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/) > [The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/the-old-dead-trees-are-the-most-fascinating-the-countless-trees-lying/) [Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/) > [The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/the-events-of-september-11-were-carried-out-by-people-armed-not-with/) [Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/) > [Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/unless-you-are-willing-to-try-fail-miserable-and-try-again-success/) [Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/) > [The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/the-most-intense-hatreds-are-not-between-political-parties-but-within/) [Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/) > [Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/unless-you-re-willing-to-have-a-go-fail-miserably-and-have-another-go/) [Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/) > [It's a privilege to present 'Late Night Live'. No radio program, anywhere on Earth, casts a wider net.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/it-s-a-privilege-to-present-late-night-live-no-radio-program-anywhere/) [Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/) > [While sticks and stones break bones, words can never hurt? Manifestly untrue. Politics everywhere are holistic, interconnected, and the rhetoric of right or left…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/while-sticks-and-stones-break-bones-words-can-never-hurt-manifestly/) [Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antisemitism/phillip-adams/#itemlist", "name": "1 Antisemitism Quotes By Phillip Adams", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not that I was Christian – I’d been an atheist since I was five. But my father, a Congregational minister, had some sympathy with the idea that the Jews had killed Christ. But any indoctrination was offset by my discovery of the concentration camps, of the Final Solution. 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