Alan Borovoy Quotes

I don't ask employers, for example, to like blacks or Jews or native people; I ask employers to hire the qualified members of thesegroups whether they likethem or not.

Alan Borovoy

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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

• All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun to be solved, because pointing at us token Blacks eases consciences of millions, and this is dreadfully wrong.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • Experience
  • Solution
  • Blacks

• 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

• It is the Jews who originated biblical exegesis (a critical analysis of the Bible), just as they were the first to criticize the forms and doctrines of Christianity...Truly has Darmesteter written: 'The Jew was the apostle of unbelief, and every revolt of mind originated with him.'

  

  Bernard Lazare
  • Christianity
  • Jews
  • Criticize

• Max [Landis] writes in quite a heightened way, specifically for Dirk. There's a rhythm and a specific speed to it, and it was very easy to learn because it was so well-written. It just rolled off the tongue. There aren't many auditions that I go for, where I feel like I could actually do the part. But with this one, even though I was not quite sure how to pin Dirk down, I thought I could do it.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Writing
  • Easy
  • Speed

• Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Character
  • Job
  • Jobs

• Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Manipulation
  • Treatment
  • Emotional Abuse

• I don't ask employers, for example, to like blacks or Jews or native people; I ask employers to hire the qualified members of thesegroups whether they likethem or not.

  

  Alan Borovoy
  • Jews
  • Employers
  • Blacks