Top 1200 Jewish History Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.

I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.

To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both.

There are laws in this country to protect everyone and that includes the Jewish community.

Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.

There is a wide range of views within the Jewish community, so it's not monolithic.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

You know what I ask Jewish liberals? 'Why don't you preach what you practice?'

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity - I admire wise men. Some of my favorite forms of history are religious history, what the sages say from the top of the mountain and how they view life.

I had a Hebraic wedding in New York, so I'm definitely Jewish.

I try not to think about legacy because it is all ­folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many people who were quite significant in their time but are completely forgotten.

All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.

Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things.

I grew up looking to all those Jewish athletes for inspiration.

It is not surprising that only one medieval state, Venice, long possessed anything clearly identifiavble as a navy in this sense. We shall see that no state in the British Isles attained attained this level of sophistication before the 16th century, and no history of the Royal Navy, in any exact sense of the words, could legitimately begin much before then. This book, which does, is not an institutional history of the Royal Navy, but a history of naval warfare as an aspect of national history. All and any methods of fighting at sea, or using the sea for warlike purposes, are its concern.

Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history.

Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.

The Jewish Orthodox community is playing footsie with the alt-right.

The history of the Church has been a history of divisiveness, repression and reaction. For almost 2000 years, Christianity has held mankind back in politics, in economics, in industry, in science, in philosophy, in culture.

It is important never to forget our history, but parts of our history are more appropriately displayed in museums, not on government property.

We can establish a Jewish and democratic state, but the burden of proof is on us.

Every leaving of a Jewish community is a most difficult thing.

My father was ethnically Jewish, but his family converted to Catholicism.

Some of my best friends are Jewish contributors to the Democratic Party.

People who are trans don't owe you their entire history right out the gate, just like you wouldn't walk up to someone and tell them your medical history. You build trust.

I will never apologize to the Jewish community for telling the truth

Arabs don't have to be the victims of the Jewish war between Lieberman and Netanyahu.

I'm glad that we have a history at all and that we can talk about feminist history. But I do think that it doesn't really pay attention to the complexity and the nuance that is feminist thought.

I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.

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We all know that history cannot be undone. But let me assure you that we Austrians know that, because of our history, we have a great responsibility.

What it depends on is someone's upbringing and the traditions and that is how you decide if you are Jewish or not.

I have always had excellent cooperation with the Jewish community in Austria.

The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.

I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves.

I'm saying this as a Republican: In the White House, the effort that goes in and wherever these decisions are made, as to limit civilian casualties, is more probably than any in the history of the world, especially when you consider the history of warfare.

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

That boom town [Abu Dhabi] proved to be the reef against which my family crashed, the story of many who seek the promised land, and my poetry is a versification of that personal history. History is all I have.

There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.

One generation after another is drifting away from anything Jewish.

I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.

I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.

I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.

Let this be our time in history so that someday we can tell our children and grandchildren that we were there, that we changed the course of history for the better.

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.

Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no denying that, as a people, we sustain a passionate concentration on the present and the future.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

Let's face it: there aren't a lot of black superheroes. So, in dealing with a black superhero, you're going to deal with ugly history and the beauty of history.

I'm Russian Jewish. And I had to grow up really quickly.

My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.