Jew Quotes

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.

I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one.

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.

For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?

Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.

As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world.

Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.

I've always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew.

Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.

Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the integrity of our Empire, by giving the world proof that we have not all sold out to the Jew or Plutocrat.

I'm a Jew.

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.

The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.

What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?

Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.

We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.

Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew.