Anti-semitism Quotes - page 4

I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it. (Arthur Hertzberg)
National Socialism like Anti-Semitism glimpses in the Jewish-materialistic spirit the primary root of the evil, but it also knows that this most powerful battle of world-history cannot remain standing in purely negative anti-Semitic demands, therefore the entire national- and economic programme of National Socialism rises far above the certainly ground-breaking but negative anti-Semitic battle by positively giving a creative constructive image of how the National Socialist state of work and performance should look. If this main goal is reached, then the National Socialist Party will be dissolved. View quote
Gottfried Feder
While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism. View quote
Tariq Ramadan
Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the 1917 February Revolution, forced exile amidst the anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, the two World Wars and quite a lot of controversy, was an author who never gave up. View quote
Ashwin Sanghi
There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds. View quote
James Lasdun
I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high school yearbook went on for pages, where I could count far more temples than I ever could churches. Anti-Semitism, in our cultural biodome, was mostly an abstract concept. View quote
Jeffrey Kluger
Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians fall, they shatter different expectations, particularly that American Jews need to work together to preserve respectability and fireproof against anti-Semitism. View quote
Jodi Kantor
I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy. View quote
Joseph Epstein
One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism. View quote
Joseph Epstein
Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk. View quote
Paul Sarbanes
Finding the right form of debate regarding Israeli policies will remain a challenge in Germany. Even with every conceivable and warranted criticism, the danger always arises that it will be exploited by those who consciously or unconsciously present anti-Semitism in a new guise. (Sigmar Gabriel)
There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity. View quote
Steven T. Katz
I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. View quote
Tim Blake Nelson
Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were the target of the Holocaust, the ultimate abomination. Yet, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept this as a reason why the wrongs done to them--dis. View quote
Kofi Annan
Anticipating attacks, I should like to emphasize that I do not subscribe to the myths propagated by enemies of Israel and I am not blaming Jews for anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism predates the birth of Israel. Neither Israel's policies nor the critics of those policies should be held responsible for anti-Semitism. View quote
George Soros
Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual. View quote
Pat Buchanan
At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really. View quote
Viggo Mortensen
There should be no compromise here: anti-Semitism is not just one-among ideologies; it is ideology as such kat'exohen. It embodies the zero-level (or the purest form) of ideology, providing its elementary coordinates: social antagonist ("class struggle") is mystified and displaced so that its cause is projected onto the external intruder. View quote
Slavoj Žižek
It is a sorry fact that prejudice against gays, and the violence it engenders with increasing frequency, are not yet treated by the media with the same clarity that racism, anti-Semitism, sexism, or discrimination against the disabled are. View quote
Michael Nava
I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community. View quote
Harry Belafonte
Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we had no anti-lynching laws, and he was also a feminist, and he was also very concerned with anti-Semitism. He was a good man, but he was hard on himself. (Joyce Carol Oates)
Co-signed as an American. We should expect all elected officials, regardless of party, and all public figures to not traffic in anti-Semitism. View quote
Chelsea Clinton
Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. View quote
Coretta Scott King
Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Anti-semitism became equal to anti-Republicanism. And Hitler went to the peasants with a campaign of anti-capitalism. View quote
Dorothy Thompson