Judaism Quote by Djuna Barnes

“Remember that it is 'free-thinking Jews,' not Jews as such, who are defined as the undesirables by T.S. Eliot in After Strange Gods .”

— Christopher Hitchens

“The likelihood that Jews would be sent to their deaths depended upon the durability of institutions of state sovereignty and the continuity of prewar…

— Timothy Snyder

“We all fashion ourselves to the false world in which we live and in so doing become false ourselves. I saw this all the…

— Glenn Haybittle

“The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“This introduces one of the most significant differences between Mussolini and Hitler. For most of his career, Mussolini considered anti-Semitism a silly distraction and,…

— Jonah Goldberg

“Why did Iwanski risk so much to save Jews? He told the author, "When a Jew cries, I cry. When a Jew suffers, I…

— Dan Kurzman

“Being Jewish did not compromise the humanitarian and universalist ideals of my close relatives who, having experienced persecution close hand, were more concerned with…

— Daniel Waterman

“In 1929, Einstein, who had once lived in Switzerland, wrote: When I came to Germany fifteen years ago I discovered for the first time…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Life had altered in the wildest possible way, but it was imperative that they act as if nothing at all had happened. Imagine smiling…

— Markus Zusak

“The Jews are an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most…

— Voltaire

“forty-nine thousand Jews in Italy at the time of the Nazi invasion, some forty-one thousand evaded arrest or survived the concentration camps.”

— Mark T. Sullivan

“Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the…

— Ellen Brazer