Jewry Quotes

#1. Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third of Jewry in the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel.

David Novak

#2. Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.

Moshe Katsav

#3. In the last 14 years Jewry has achieved positions of influence which it has grossly misused morally, financially and politically in an unheard-of manner, with the result that the German people crumbled morally, financially, and politically.

Ernst Hanfstaengl

#4. So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.

Harold Brodkey

#5. The Jewish calendar, which is lunar, is a calendar of witness. The Sanhedrin, Jewry's Congress, met in Jerusalem toward the end of every month to wait for the new moon.

Joshua Cohen

#6. Let them say what they want. I will not demand that the Jewish Agency allocate a sum of 300,000 or 100,000 pounds sterling to help European Jewry. And I think that whoever demands such things is performing an anti-Zionist act.

Yitzhak Gruenbaum

#7. Identifying Israel with Jewry obscures the existence of the small but important post-Zionist movement in Israel, including the philosophers Adi Ophir and Anat Biletzki, the sociologist Uri Ram, the professor of theatre Avraham Oz and the poet Yitzhak Laor.

Judith Butler

#8. No matter what Germany or Germans did, it was because they were defending themselves from international Jewry. The Jews were always the aggressor, the Germans always the victims.

Timothy Snyder

#9. When the Jews leave Russia, Communism will collapse there. World Jewry is today relocating to America. Thus the real threat of Communism in America has just begun.

Arnold Leese

#10. [T]he task of abolishing the essence of Jewry is in truth the task of abolishing Jewry in civil society, abolishing the inhumanity of today's practice of life, the summit of which is the money system.

Karl Marx

#11. But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders.

Julius Streicher

#12. The Idumeans (Edomites) were ... made Jews ... and a Turkish people (Khazars) were mainly Jews in South Russia ... The main part of Jewry never was in Judea and had never come out of Judea.

H.G.Wells

#13. There will never be another Ed Koch. He was an original, but he represented a significant, if shrinking, segment of American Jewry who refused to compromise their liberal values, their support for Israel or their Jewish pride.

Alan Dershowitz

#14. As president of the largest Jewish organization, I disposed of budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars; I directed thousands of employees, and all this, I emphasize again, not for one particular state, but within the frame work of International Jewry.

Nahum Goldmann

#15. Chabad is very important because without Jewish education, Diaspora Jewry would disappear.

Harry Triguboff

#16. I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs.

Harold E. Varmus

#17. We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny.

Theodor Herzl

#18. If war breaks out, I will fight for Hitler since such a war would be against Jewry.

William Joyce

#19. In the struggle for the soul of American Jewry, the Orthodox model has triumphed.

Samuel G. Freedman

#20. In America, however, the Bolshevik scare effectively ended the policy of unrestricted immigration which had been the salvation of east European Jewry in the period 1881-1914, and which had enabled the great American Jewry to come into existence.

Paul Johnson

#21. The Holocaust was in actuality both, but for a long time the overwhelming part of it comprised by the attempted Nazi eradication of European Jewry was downplayed in many circles in favour of its more universalist aspect.

Steven Beller

#22. Also noteworthy is the increasingly violent struggle against the dogmatic foundations of the various churches without which in this human world the practical existence of a religious faith is not conceivable.

Adolf Hitler

#23. The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.

Michael Rapaport

#24. It wasn't so much that I was positive. I just wasn't fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.

Sarah Dessen

#25. Altruism is the kind of pie best eaten with a lot of gravy and little inspection of the kind of kidney it's stuffed with.

M T Anderson

#26. Avoid popularity it has many snares and no real benefit.

William Penn

#27. Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.

Norman Douglas

#28. The Unites States is the largest developed country. Canada enjoys a flourishing economy and advanced technology. Mexico is an important developing country. China attaches great importance to the friendly cooperation with the three countries,.

Li Zhaoxing

#29. Sometimes there's a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I've ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.

Billy Connolly

#30. A pretty little minnow ... cool as rain, blue as heaven ...

Alice Hoffman

#31. Hopefully I won't be 35 still playing a 16-year-old.

Kathryn Prescott

#32. People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.

Sam Worthington

#33. Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest.

Kahlil Gibran

#34. A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless?

Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

#35. I believe that all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play, as opposed to work, in the quickened intuitional spontaneity that I see as a constant through all my own existences, and in the experience of those I know.

Seth