Figments Quote by Cynthia Ozick

Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.

— David Novak

I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.

— Mel Brooks

From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew…

— Karl Marx

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

A Jew is anyone who says he is.

— David Ben-Gurion

The majority of Jews are secular... the Nazis never checked if anyone was going to the synagogue or eating kosher.

— David Baddiel

A Christian is Christ in the inward humanity; and a Jew is Christ in the figure, and in the office of his law, viz.…

— Jakob Bohme

Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended…

— Lenny Bruce

A Jew describes another Jew simply as a human being; a Gentile describes him, first and foremost, as a Jew.

— Gwethalyn Graham

Once a Jew always a Jew.

— Israel Zolli

A Jew remains a Jew. Assimilalation is impossible, because a Jew cannot change his national character. Whatever he does, he is a Jew and…

— Ludwig Lewisohn

The mental secularization of Christians means that nowadays we meet only as worshipping beings and as moral beings, not as thinking beings.

— Harry Blamires