Top 25 Shlomo Sand Quotes
#1. I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.
Rand Paul
#2. If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.
Shlomo Sand
#3. God not only orders our steps, He orders our stops.
George Muller
#4. You see, sometimes in life, the best thing for all that ails you has fur and four legs.
Mark J. Asher
#5. the term "Land of Israel" was a later Christian and rabbinical invention that was theological, and by no means political in nature. Indeed, we can cautiously posit that the name first appeared in the New Testament in the Gospel of Matthew.
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#6. I don't think books can change the world, but when the world begins to change, it searches for different books.
Shlomo Sand
#7. My main goal in this book is to deconstruct the concept of the Jewish "historical right" to the Land of Israel and its associated nationalist narratives, whose only purpose was to establish moral legitimacy for the appropriation of territory.
Shlomo Sand
#8. Peoples, populations, native populaces, tribes and religious communities are not nations, even though they are often spoken of as such.
Shlomo Sand
#9. Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.
Bill Vaughan
#10. The best way to kill a good thing is question it to death.
Chuck Hogan
#11. Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.
Shlomo Sand
#12. They got a lot of easy baskets and rebounds. That is what killed us.
Rajon Rondo
#13. Humans and changelings had hobbies, he thought in one corner of his mind. This would be his.
Nalini Singh
#14. In no text or archaeological finding do we find the term "Land of Israel" used to refer to a defined geographic region. This
Shlomo Sand
#15. I believe neither in the past existence of a Jewish people, exiled from its land, nor in the premise that the Jews are originally descended from the ancient land of Judea.
Shlomo Sand
#16. Names of regions and countries change over time, and it is sometimes common to refer to ancient lands using names assigned to them later in history. However, this linguistic custom has typically been practiced only in the absence of other known and acceptable names for the places in question.
Shlomo Sand
#18. One of the secrets of the Muslim army's power was its relatively liberal attitude toward the religions of the defeated people-provided they were monoththeists, of course. Muhammad's commandment to treat Jews and Christians as "People of The book" gave them legal protection.
Shlomo Sand
#19. You can see the city lights from there, spreading out below like stars on the ground.
Ava Dellaira
#20. Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine; every dark night will finally fade into dawn.
Steve Goodier
#21. To the dismay of anti-Semites, the Jews were never a foreign "ethnos" of invaders from afar but rather an autochthonous population whose ancestors, for the most part, converted to Judaism before the arrival of Christianity or Islam.17
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#22. The landscape had been so maimed by this new kind of warfare it was as if human architects of great genius had sat down to plan hell, since no two of them could agree on the design of heaven.
Christopher Buehlman
#23. Today could be described as a retired man humming tunelessly to himself.
Rae Armantrout
#24. People and things have edges, but where does a landscape stop?
Myfanwy Pavelic
#25. Scream silently in your prayer; remember the pain of others.
Megan McKenna
