JEW

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1. To be a Jew is a destiny.—VICKI BAUM, And Life Goes On
   

2. And Israel shall be a proverb and a by-word among all people.—Bible, Kings 9:7
   

3. Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!—Bible, John 1:47
   

4. Since the Jews are considered as a thoroughly different element, we must define their racial position. There is no more a Semitic than there is an Aryan race, since both terms define linguistic groups, not human beings. . . . It is well known that dark Syroid Jews are often taken for Spaniards or Italians, Armenoids for South Slays or other Alpines, and blond, blue-eyed Jews for Northwest Europeans.—FRANZ BOAS, Aryans & Non-Aryans
   

5. Have Mercy upon Jews, Turks, Infidels, and Heretics.Book of Common Prayer

6. Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.—DISRAELI
   

7. If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.—EINSTEIN
   

8. The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.—GEORGE ELIOT, Daniel Deronda
   

9. The sufferance, which is the badge of the Jew, has made him, in these days, the ruler of the rulers of the earth.—EMERSON, Conduct of Life
   

10. The political misfortunes of the nation [Jews] taught them to appreciate the only possession they had retained, their written records, at its true value. Immediately after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by Titus, Rabbi Jochanaan ben Sakkai asked for permission to open at Jabne the first school for the study of the Torah. From now on it was the Holy Book, and the study of it, that kept the scattered people together.—SIGMUND FREUD, Moses and Monotheism
    

11. A Jew is for me an object of physical disgust. I vomit when I see one . .. Christ cannot possibly have been a Jew. I don't have to prove
    that scientifically. It is a fact . .. I treasure an ordinary prostitute above a married Jewess.—GOEBBELS, John Gunther: Inside Europe
    

12. When people talk about a wealthy man of my creed, they call him an Israelite ; but if he is poor they call him a Jew.—HEINE
    

13. Pride and humiliation hand in hand
    Walked with them through the
    world where'er they went;
    Trampled and beaten were they as the sand,
    And yet unshaken as the continent.—LONGFELLOW, The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
    

14. Who taught you tender Bible tales
    Of honey-lands, of milk and wine?
    Of happy, peaceful Palestine?
    Of Jordan's holy harvest vales?
    Who gave the patient Christ? I say
    Who gave your Christian creed? Yea, yea,
    Who gave your very God to you?
    Your Jew! Your Jew! Your hated Jew!—JOAQUIN MILLER, To Russia
    

15. I am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

16. You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog,
    And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

17. For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

18. I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice

19. A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew!
    Now, infidel, I have thee on the hip.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

20. The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.—BERNARD SHAW, Saint Joan