Israel Quotes by Maurice Samuel

To say that a schlemiel is a luckless person is to touch only the negative side. It is the schlemiel's avocation and profession to…

— Maurice Samuel

We Jews are accused of being destroyers: whatever you put up, we tear down. It is true only in a relative sense. We are…

— Maurice Samuel

Our Jewishness is not a creed, it is ourself, our totality. Indeed, it may be fairly said that the surest evidence of your lack…

— Maurice Samuel

Years of observation and thought have given increasing strength to the belief that we Jews stand apart from you gentiles, that a primal duality…

— Maurice Samuel

There are two life-forces in the world I know: Jewish and gentile, ours and yours...I do not believe that this primal difference between gentile…

— Maurice Samuel

You have your way of life, we ours. In your system of life we are essentially without 'honor.' In our system of life you…

— Maurice Samuel

You may even have Jews in your midst who did not learn their way of life from us, and did not inherit it from…

— Maurice Samuel

Wherever the Jew is found he is a problem, a source of unhappiness to himself and to those around him. Ever since he has…

— Maurice Samuel

A century of partial tolerance gave us Jews access to your world. In that period the great attempt was made, by advance guards of…

— Maurice Samuel

We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever…

— Maurice Samuel

When Germany and England and America will long have lost their present identity or purpose, we shall still be strong in ours.

— Maurice Samuel

In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American?

— Maurice Samuel

We belong to the One mastering God: you belong to the republic of playful gods.

— Maurice Samuel

Jew and Gentile are two worlds, between you Gentiles and us Jews there lies an unbridgeable gulf...There are two life forces in the world…

— Maurice Samuel