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  • I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Acts of the  Apostles 21:39.

  • There isneither Jew nor Greek, there isneither bond nor free, there isneither malenor female: for yeareall onein Christ Jesus. 122

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Galatians 3:28.

  • Lienot oneto another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Colossians 3:9^11.

  • And all must love the human form, In heathen,Turk or Jew; Where mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

    -William Blake
      Songs of Innocence,'The Divine Image'.

  • Americarather, the United Statesseems to me to be the Jewamong the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm- hearted, overfriendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travellers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile.

    - Edna Ferber
      A Peculiar Treasure, ch.1.

  •    Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, the agony we cannot feel, the death we look at like a cold abstraction. Each man has his Jew; it is the other.

    - Arthur Miller
      Leduc. Incident at Vichy, act1.

  • In fact, I'm not really a Jew.Just Jew-ish. Not the whole hog you know.

    -JonathanWolfe Miller
      Beyond the Fringe,'Real Class'.

  • Of historyand its consequences it may be said: 'Those who can, gloat; those who can't, brood.' Englishmen are born gloaters; Irishmen born brooders. There are, it is true, brooders who take to gloating, and they did much to build the Empire.Yet the brooder-gloater, such as the Irishman turned Englishman, is not, as a human type, altogether a success. He is a little too much on his guard, like an excessivelyassimilated Jew, or a son of Harlem who has decided to'pass'. The past of the Irishman, the Jew, the Negro, is, psychologically, too explosive to be buried.

    -Cruise
      To Katanga and Back: a UN case history.

  • A four-kind son-of-a-bitch, but the greatest Jew since Jesus Christ.

    - Colonel Robbins
    Of LeonTrotsky. Quoted byA J P Taylor in the New Statesman and Nation, 20 Feb1954.

  • What makes you a normal Jew, Nathan, is how you are riveted by Jewish abnormality.

    - Philip Milton Roth
      The Counterlife, ch.2.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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