Martin Luther Quotes

What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.

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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

• 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

• It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Career
  • Success
  • Destroyed

• 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

• People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • Nature
  • Destroyed

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

  

  Warren R. Austin
  • Good
  • Christians
  • Jews

• Can liberty be destroyed by the truth?

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Truth
  • Liberty
  • Destroyed

• 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

• Everyone knows that Jews control the media and banks and stuff. But did you know that when you go to a carnival and you have to be a certain height to go on a ride, Jews control that height? It has nothing to do with safety. It's just us flexing our Semitic muscles.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Control
  • Safety
  • Jews

• A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

  

  Jane Austen
  • People
  • Leave
  • Fireside

• We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Driven
  • Sail
  • Sphere

• What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Destroyed
  • Jews