Anti semitism Quote by Mary McCarthy

Anti-Semitism is a disease-you catch it from Jews

— Edgar Steele

Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the mind, it…

— Paul Johnson

Anti-Semitism is nothing but the antagonistic attitude produced in the non-Jew by the Jewish group. This is a normal social reaction. The Jewish group…

— Albert Einstein

Anti-Semitism is best understood as a virus. It has no logic. Jews were hated because they were rich and because they were poor; because…

— Jonathan Sacks

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

— Daniel Barenboim

I think of the various forms of anti-Semitism as very much like different kinds of cancer. A healthy body with a strong immune system…

— William Barr

There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.

— James Lasdun

If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it…

— Paul Johnson

Anti-Semitism does not signify opposition to Semitism. There is no such thing. It is an expression we Jews use effectively as a smear word…

— Harold Wallace Rosenthal

There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.

— Elie Wiesel

As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally…

— A. C. Cuza

What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more…

— Paul Johnson