Jews Lived Quotes

#1. IN SHAME AND SORROW CHRISTIANS KEEP IN MEMORY THE JEWISH CITIZENS OF THIS CITY. IN 1933, 4675 JEWS LIVED IN DRESDEN. IN 1945 IT WAS 70. WE WERE SILENT AS THEIR HOUSES OF WORSHIP BLAZED . . . WE DID NOT RECOGNIZE THEM AS OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. WE ASK FOR FORGIVENESS.

Lauren Belfer

#2. I have always lived in Amsterdam. During the war, we inhabited the Rivieren neighborhood where many Jews lived at the time. Our downstairs neighbors were Jews, and there were also Jews a few houses from us. We saw how they were rounded up and taken away. That made a very great impression on me.

Els Borst

#3. It's fair to say that Jews dominated basketball and that started in the 30s in all the big cities. I think it was simply because Jews lived in ghettoes and basketball is a great schoolyard game. You don't need a lot of space or equipment and you can adapt it to how many players you have.

Dolph Schayes

#4. We are living like brothers, Christians and Muslims. Also the Jews lived in peace with us before the occupation began.

Khaled Mashal

#5. He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.

Pearl S. Buck

#6. Guido had lived as all Jews do, who, cut off from their people by accident or choice, find that they must inhabit a world whose constituents, being alien, force the mind to succumb to an imaginary populace.

Djuna Barnes

#7. The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air, the bodies of the soul that built the wonderland shuffled and stalked and stalked and lurched in attitudes of immemorial nightmare all around.

Allen Ginsberg

#8. The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.

Hendrik Verwoerd

#9. If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.

Malcolm X

#10. You're angry."
"Wow. You really are good."
"And guarded. You've been hurt, but you still crave connection. Understanding. So you throw yourself into risk in a calculated way. You're a paradox: a careful daredevil.

Leah Raeder

#11. Jews have always yearned for Jerusalem, from which they'd been exiled many times, but they also yearned for each and every one of the countries where they had been persecuted and where their ancestors once lived and are still buried.

Phyllis Chesler

#12. The Holocaust would never have happened if black people lived in Germany in the 1930s and 40s ... well, it wouldn't have happened to Jews.

Sarah

#13. Your true friends echo your own philosophies back at you.

J.R. Rim

#14. Our intuitions fail us. We rightly associate the Holocaust with Nazi ideology, but forget that many of the killers were not Nazis or even Germans. We think first of German Jews, although almost all of the Jews killed in the Holocaust lived beyond Germany. We

Timothy Snyder

#15. Wondering's the worst. it's dreaming about something you never intend to explore. I hate it.

C.M. Stunich

#16. Somehow, when we no longer feel in control, we become available to deeper aliveness.

Richard Moss

#17. I do love the idea of ritual.

Sarah Silverman

#18. Always historicize!

Fredric Jameson

#19. The original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live ...

Ashley Montagu

#20. I don't know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards.

Huey Long

#21. He was a simple honest man. He never strayed,
He never drank, he never smoked, and he never kissed a maid.
And when he passed away his insurance was denied,
Because he never lived, they claimed he never died.

Ted Gup

#22. Those who want to learn more than bread and butter shall be able to make this world a better place ...

Dinesh Kumar

#23. Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them?

Norman Finkelstein

#24. 'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. Stick to the needle, learn shirt-making and gown-making and piecrust-making, and you will be a clever woman some day.

Charlotte Bronte

#26. I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts and cousins all around, and I thought everybody lived like that.

Anita Brookner