Ari Shavit Quotes
At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century.
Ari Shavit
Quotes to Explore
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A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.
Leonard Susskind
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Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.
S. I. Hayakawa
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The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.
Bruce Sterling
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War loves to seek its victims in the young.
Sophocles
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What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid, symbolic of the blood that was probably used in past centuries.
Wendy Doniger
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A fantasy of mine is to do a podcast that's Marcel Marceau and I, and you only hear me laughing at him and trying to figure out what he's doing.
Zach Galifianakis
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The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student of human nature, to pay attention to his experience, to understand the nature of experience itself. By delving into raw experience and distilling it into a work of art, the writer is engaging in the heart and soul of philosophy - making sense out of life.
Georg Buhler
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I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.
John Hewson
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At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century.
Ari Shavit
