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Cool Quotes
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You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog,
And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine.
-The Merchant of Venice. ACT I Scene 3.
The Jew has taught me how to wait.
-Peer Gynt, Act IV, Henrik Ibsen
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Prejudice is reason’s enemy.
-Folk Wisdom
The Jews are not hated because they have evil qualities; evil qualities are sought for in them, because they are hated.
-Max Nordau
We are God’s stake in human history.
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
The greatest hero is one who turns their enemy into a friend.
-Avot deRabbi Natan, 23
There are sparks of holiness in everything; they constitute our spirituality.
-Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezeritch
The highest form of wisdom is kindness.
-Talmud Brakhot 17a
[Posted 8/15/04]
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