Judaism Quotes · Page 33

I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.

— Ed Koch

The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to…

— Julius Streicher

I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and…

— Patti Smith

The shortcoming of purely political discourse between Christians and Jews arises from the fact that it is largely built upon the perception…

— David Novak

To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.

— Louis D. Brandeis

The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

— Voltaire

Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.

— Yitzhak Shamir

And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

— Mordecai Richler

If the Jews had issues with the Polish people then why during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, did the Jewish underground hang two…

— Andrzej Duda

“America and Russia provide a good test of the accuracy of the Bible regarding the treatment of Jews. Russia has a long…

— John McTernan

I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant,…

— Erica Jong

“In Arab nations, many people opposed Zionism because they believed that the UN had no right to establish a Jewish state on…

— Phyllis Goldstein

We must stop using the Bible as though it were a potpourri of inerrant proof-texts by which we can bring people into…

— Robert D. Brinsmead

“That's what being Jewish is: summoning the means to question who you are and how you have behaved. Have you remained alight…

— Emily Franklin

“The dark “midnight” of the “time of great tribulation”[519] before the coming of the “Bridegroom” will soon be upon us. In that…

— Dalton Lifsey

What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in…

— Rosa Luxemburg

I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very…

— Lionel Blue

Hebrew is the most wonderful of languages, a language of a thousand antonyms, hard and strong as steel, while soft and gleaming…

— Ze'ev Jabotinsky

If we had a girl, my wife wanted to call her Sue -- a lovely name, but which for Jews is generally…

— Dennis Wolfberg

“Saint Paul said the invisible must be understood by the visible. That was not a Hebrew idea, it was Greek.”

— Edith Hamilton

For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.

— Judith Plaskow

We don't know whether or not it's the Farewell Tour odr the Jews in Space Tour, which I prefer as a title.

— Gene Simmons

I'm not naive. I know perfectly well that there isn't a single Arab or Muslim in the world who would say: There…

— Daniel Barenboim

Nobody understood what it was like to be black and Jewish... being different from everyone else just made me a lot stronger.

— Drake

Happily, I come out of a Calvinist tradition in which the Hebrew Bible carries as much authority as the New Testament. No…

— Frank Moore Cross

Is it possible that Jesus, unlike 98 percent of his fellow Jews, was literate and educated? Yes, it's possible.

— Reza Aslan

Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous…

— Theodor Herzl

“University of Chicago is a Baptist school, where atheist professors teach Jewish students about St. Thomas Aquinas.”

— Martin Gardner

A Jewish woman had 2 chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help…

— Henny Youngman

Summer came. For the books thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews.

— Markus Zusak

Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend.

— David Irving

The relationship between the Jews and Arabs is necessary to help build a bridge between Israelis and Palestinians.

— Reuven Rivlin

A car hit a Jewish man. The paramedic says, "Are you comfortable?" The man says, "I make a good living."

— Henny Youngman

We may not see the connection between the name Jesus and the phrase "save his people from their sins," but Joseph would…

— Max Lucado

“There would be Jews in the pageant?" I asked him. "Certainly-" he said, "thousands of them." "May I ask, sir," I said,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound…

— Jack Steinberger

My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.

— Zig Ziglar

I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.

— Natalie Portman

No doubt the Jews aren't a lovable people; I don't care about them myself; but that is not sufficient to explain the…

— Neville Chamberlain

My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was…

— Ziggy Marley