Energy Quote by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.

— Elie Wiesel

A Jew is anyone who says he is.

— David Ben-Gurion

If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust…

— Mark Twain

Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a…

— Nnamdi Azikiwe

The Jew is contrary to our being. ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our…

— Joseph Goebbels

The more the Jew is a Jew, the more universalist will his views and aspirations be, the less aloof will he be from anything…

— Samson Raphael Hirsch

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

— Lionel Trilling

“The Jew is that sacred being, who has brought down from Heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He…

— Leo Tolstoy

To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.

— Marek Edelman

Given the long history of global anti-Semitism and continued calls for the destruction of Israel, it's tough to be a Jew.

— Nell Scovell

Being a Jew and an Israeli are inseparable things.

— Yair Lapid

“Their Jewishness is visible in their physical appearance, and one notices their Jewish heritage in their intellectual work.”

— Alexander Kennedy