Top 1200 Jewish Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Fashion can really give you an identity if you're looking for one and I think the more people that know that, the less identity crises we'll have in the world.

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.

I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material.

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

The Emanuels are Jewish mafia. It's not that Jews are bad. It's just that they are the head of the Jewish mafia in the United States.

Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.

It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.

In historical messianism, the reign of the Messiah is brought about by a Jewish ruler powerful enough to gather the Jewish exiles back to the land of Israel, reestablish a Torah government there, and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.

I always think about race as a part of one's identity, not the whole of one's identity. You don't want it to be the defining characteristic of a character. There has to be more.

It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.

I really shine in front of prominently Jewish crowds. Normally I really beat myself up, but as far as Jewish audiences go, I'm at the top of my game.

The Jewish conception of the Jews as the Chosen People who must eventually rule the world forms indeed the basis of Rabbinical Judaism... The Jewish religion now takes its stand on the Talmud rather than on the Bible.

I have a very healthy dose of scepticism towards what identity is and what personas are, maybe because of my life journey. Identity is something so malleable.

People are created in God's image. Homosexuality is an identity adopted through societal factors. It's an identity disorder.

I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all.

I was one of two Jewish kids in my school. We were probably one of two Jewish families in our town.

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.

In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.

We need to do everything possible to save the Jewish state. We don't have another Jewish state.

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

I'd say that my identity is really a culinary identity, so the way I relate to my national heritage is through its cuisine.

Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.

I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.

Building brands and helping people figure out their identity - as far as a business identity and everything - was kind of my niche.

For a long time, I felt like my identity was to fight. My identity was to be a world champion. That almost defined me.

I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.

When the Jewish state of Israel is strong, Jewish communities worldwide are also strong.

Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way of working

I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.

November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.

My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.

There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.

I had given up practising my Jewish religion when I was a 14-year-old girl and did not begin to feel Jewish again until I had returned to God.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

Working-class actors have no identity. Our identity is playing every single poor person on 'Game Of Thrones.'

I think one of the big challenges facing modern liberalism is that there's not a great emotional appeal to an international identity, like a citizen-of-the-world identity.

Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.

We usually speak of the Jewish-Christian civilization - perhaps, the time has come, especially with regard to the Middle East conflict, to talk about the Jewish-Muslim civilization as an axis opposed to Christianity.

I love the nation of Israel. I love Jewish people. My King was Jewish, and I embrace that.

We must not forget; but we must forgive. Suffering often such compassion from the Jewish community. It was Jewish groups in the US who were in the forefront in opposing the ethnic cleansing of Muslim in Bosnia.

Ive always done accents and stupid voices. But I went to school in Hampstead, where most of my mates were Jewish, and Jewish North London humour is so clever that I never thought I was funny.

If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom.

I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves.

It may be the case that [post-Holocaust] the authentic Jewish agnostic and the authentic Jewish believer are closer than at any previous time.

To get on in Hollywood, you've gotta be a bit gay and a bit Jewish, and I'm saving up to be Jewish.

The thing that keeps me being a performer is my interest in society's obsession with identity, because I'm not sure that I really believe identity exists.

I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can from childhood, but I am not an expert on Jewish teachings.

You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.

The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.

I'm not completely Jewish, if you know what I mean. I know people want me to be. My father is Jewish. My mother isn't.

I never felt like a good Jew. My mother was not Jewish, and that makes me a non-Jew according to Jewish religious law.

The Palestinian people have no national identity. I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel.

All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.

It's a bad strategy to have an identity-based strategy on the left. De-emphasizing identity all-around would help our politics because we would have to pay more attention to the issues. We may have to pay more attention to class if we didn't have these self-defeating identity agendas.

I don't like identity. We accept identities in Israel. We make them holy. But what does identity really mean?

I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.