Jew Quotes by Amos Oz

11 Jew quotes by Amos Oz

When literature meets cultural reflection, Amos Oz’s eleven brief lines on being a Jew feel both personal and universally resonant, giving a taste of his nuanced perspective.

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"The State of the Jews" was not a title of a country. It was a title of a futuristic novel.

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Israel is imperfect, of course it is - a far cry from the monumental dreams of the founding fathers. One of the…

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I never regard my characters, my protagonists, as personifications. It's not that I sit by my desk and I pick up a…

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Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or…

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The Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they…

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The Jews have a powerful ally, America, but they do not really have a bigger family in the same way that there…

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The Palestinians are not going anywhere - -they have nowhere to go. The Israeli Jews also aren't going anywhere - they have…

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Sometimes, recently Israeli-Palestinian conflict is indeed a clash between wrong and wrong. It is not as simple as fascism was. Every decent…

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Black Box is not a statement about injustice committed against Sephardi Oriental Jews or about the extremism of religious Jews or the…

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Israel is a fulfillment, and as a fulfillment, it is flawed. Dreams fulfilled are imperfect. And, Israel is imperfect, of course it…

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Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago. "The State of the Jews" was not…

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I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

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Nobody ever predicted, a week before President Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, that his arrival would be the beginning of a peace process…

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I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence.

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Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the…

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Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved…

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When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that, you should…

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We have to carry through to the next day and hope that we will be okay tomorrow as we are today and in the…

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Trump is many things. He is pampered. He is an immature man. He is a teenager craving unconditional, endless love from everybody.

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The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never…

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“Judaism and Christianity, and Islam too, all drip honeyed words of love and mercy so long as they do not have access to handcuffs,…

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Never cut loose from your longings.

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If people are pro-Israel, they are pro-Israel one-hundred-and-twenty percent. If they are anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian, they tend to be pro-Palestinian one-hundred-and-twenty percent. I don't…

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