Jewish quotes

  Iherebycommissionyouto carryout all thepreparations withregardto†atotal solutionoftheJewishquestion, in those territories of Europe that are under German influence.

- HermannWilhelm Goering
  Directive to the Nazi High Command, 31  Jul, quoted in William Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1962).

Fora Jewish Puritanofthemiddleclass,thenovel isserious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why,thenovelispractically theretailbusinessalloveragain.

- Howard Nemerov
  Journal of the Fictive Life,'Reflexions of the Novelist Felix Ledger'.

Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means of seeing one's imperfections and the consoling assurance of grace which makes this realization bearable. This ultimate paradox of high religion is not an invention of theologians or priests. It is constantly validated by the most searching experiences of life.

- Reinhold Niebuhr
  Reflections on the End of an Era.

   I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over he'd've put diamonds on the floor.

-Joan pseudonym of Joan AlexandraMolinsky Rivers
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

In our lore, the Jewish family was an inviolate haven against every formof menace, frompersonal isolationto gentile hostility. Regardless of internal friction and strife, it was assumed to be an indissoluble consolidation† Family indivisibility, the first commandment.

- Philip Milton Roth
  The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography,'Dear Zuckerman'.

It will be fun to be the first Jewish Queen of Egypt.

- Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor
c.1962  On taking the title role in Cleopatra. Attributed.