Martin Luther Quotes

Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth.

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• Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Up
  • Same
  • Tragedy

• Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Jews
  • Slaves
  • Neurotics

• When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

  

  S. Ansky
  • Work
  • Literature
  • Jews

• The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Stupid
  • Jews
  • Homosexuality

• Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • New York
  • Paris
  • Jews

• The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Living
  • Jews
  • Minority

• There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.

  

  Larry David
  • Funny
  • Talk
  • Jews

• In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Church
  • Jews
  • Early

• No one said anything to my face, but I constantly heard comments denigrating Jews.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Said
  • Face
  • Jews

• I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Think
  • More
  • Jews

• I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Hate
  • Jews
  • Lover

• The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Success
  • Jews
  • Resentment

• Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • London
  • Jews

• The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Destruction
  • Jews
  • Jewish

• We Jews have been too adaptable. We have been too eager to sacrifice our idiosyncrasies for the sake of social conformity. … Even in modern civilization, the Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Sacrifice
  • Civilization
  • Jews

• I don't know whether Jews can behave like good Christians, but Muslim Arabs certainly cannot.

  

  Warren R. Austin
  • Good
  • Christians
  • Jews

• For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others, was raised with a deep conviction that the day would never come when we would have to relinquish parts of the land of our forefathers. I believed and to this day still believe in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • People
  • Believe
  • Deep

• Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant!

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Chinese
  • Jews
  • Restaurant

• It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, over Europe; that they are not working or planning for that end is equally sure... The resourcefulness of the modern Jews, both in mind and soul, is extraordinary.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Working
  • Europe
  • Jews

• For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Writing
  • Dream
  • Novel

• The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Inspiration
  • Artists
  • Female

• The movement in our relationship to God is always from God to us. Always. We can't, through our piety or goodness, move closer to God. God is always coming near to us. Most especially in the Eucharist and in the stranger.

  

  Nadia Bolz-Weber
  • Christianity
  • Lutheranism

• Bowie's been a huge influence on me.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Me
  • Influence
  • Bowie

• Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Jews
  • Cloth
  • Papists