Judaism Quotes · Page 29

“H. Bauer ... was already arguing that some elements of Hebrew, such as the consecutive tenses, had a close relationship with Akkadian.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

— Elie Wiesel

The success that I have in sitcoms comes from the fact that 60 percent of the writers are Jewish guys in their…

— Sam Seder

Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or…

— Vera Rubin

What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings...are to be taken from them.

— Martin Luther

I want a steamy little Jewish Princess with over-worked gums, who squeaks when she cums. I don't want no troll, I just…

— Frank Zappa

And this would normalize the existence of the Israeli and the Jew: a majority of Jews in the Land of Israel and…

— Shimon Peres

A Hebrew knelt in the dying light, His eye was dim and cold; The hairs on his brow were silver white, And…

— Thomas Kibble Hervey

Christianity and Judaism are united above all in their common affirmation and implementation of the moral teaching of the Hebrew Bible, or…

— David Novak

I got a sense of the amazingness of ordinary life, and I became aware of the marvel that we're around to begin…

— A. J. Jacobs

Let us be under no illusion. The Jewish spirit, which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was…

— Francisco Franco

Yugoslavia served as a reminder that the lessons of World War Two were only partially learned. There's a great line someone wrote…

— Tony Judt

The legendary missionary journey of St. Paul, which led to the foundation of the British church, presupposes the existence of a Jewish…

— Cecil Roth

As a child, I personally didn't really get to know any Jews. I was eight years old when the Night of Broken…

— Helmut Kohl

The Jews' guilt of the crucifixion of Jesus consigned them to perpetual servitude, and, like Cain, they are to be wanderers and…

— Pope Innocent III

The ethical regime [of the Jews] was quite definitely Ptolemaic, revolving around the small group of Jews, not the larger Gentile group…

— David Riesman

Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a…

— Barack Obama

“Thus, for many Christians, showing contempt for Jews became a way of affirming their own faith.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover…

— Heinrich Heine

“Severe against others, he was most severe against himself. He resembled a Hebrew prophet  He may be called a Christian Elijah.”

— Philip Schaff

Every theistic religion, including Catholicism, Mainline Protestantism, Judaism, Mormonism, and Islam, has traditionally held homosexual congress in moral opprobrium.

— Michael J. Knowles

I grew up around whites, I grew up around Jews, I grew up around blacks, I grew up around Hispanics. We moved…

— David Choe

Open a Jewish daily prayer book used in any part of the world, and Zionism will leap out at you.

— Ephraim Mirvis

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media…

— Toni Morrison

It has always been inevitable that, living as a small minority among a Christian majority, some Jews would convert to Christianity.

— David Novak

“The Jewish contribution to the idea of love is the conception of love of the Sabbath, the love of a day, of…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“To review: We have a dog that's been resurrected, a peasant girl who sees the future, a supernaturally strong oblate, and a…

— Adam Gidwitz

I am Jewish, but I love Christmas, as most Jews with any taste do, because Hanukkah is lame.

— Billy Eichner

You have miracles [in the Hebrew Bible], yes, but they're not the work, normally, of demons.

— Frank Moore Cross

“ACT18.28 For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.”

— Anonymous

The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.

— Mikhail Kalinin

“Allah had given us the responsibility of eradicating the Jews, and my father didn’t question that, though he personally had nothing against…

— Mosab Hassan Yousef

The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole.

— Naftali Bennett

I attended five different Jewish day schools as a teenager. I mean, I was trained as a hazan!

— David Draiman

I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.

— Jill Soloway

“Columbus never found the Ten Lost Tribes. However, he did unknowingly stumble upon two continents new to Europeans that would, in time,…

— Phyllis Goldstein

If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity.…

— Elliott Abrams

Each country can absorb only a limited number of Jews, if she doesn't want disorders in her stomach. Germany already has too…

— Chaim Weizmann

“The geographical and historical facts of Hebrew place it within the Northwest Semitic group of languages.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer... and we are his chosen people.

— Harold Wallace Rosenthal