Quotes About Jewish Assimilation

#1. I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.

Benjamin Rush

#2. The problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community.

Joshua Cohen

#3. Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

Woody Allen

#4. The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of the United States. There is no need anymore to choose between assimilation and separation. We are accepted as equals.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#5. The burden of proof is now on the doubters.

Robert K. Wilcox

#6. The human spirit: Unbreakable. Relentless. Free.

Garth Brooks

#7. It is not necessary to attempt a resolution when it is self-resolving.

David Thorne

#8. In my best moments, when I calm down and listen closely, God says, I didn't ask you to become new and improved today. That wasn't the goal. You were broken down and strange yesterday, and you still are today, and the only one freaked out about it is you.

Shauna Niequist

#9. In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.

Dante Alighieri

#10. I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more.

Alison Bechdel

#11. Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

Al-Waleed Bin Talal

#12. Jesus Christ said the gate that leads to destruction is wide and the way is broad, but the gate which leads to life is straight and the way narrow.

Billy Graham

#13. I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration.

Aziz Ansari

#14. Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else assimilation - but rather, for the vast majority, the adventure of living in between.

Simon Schama

#15. Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

Edward Abbey

#16. I still feel like I'm doing this for the same reasons and working just as hard.

Scott Wolf

#17. The most gloomy prognosis about Jewish life is that it will disappear between the two extremes of ultra-Orthodoxy on the one hand and total assimilation on the other. But those are very exaggerated scenarios.

Simon Schama