#jew

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#jewel #most #nation #poet #precious

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#jews #nationality #other #people #psychosis

The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important. ↗

— Marek Belka

#country #culture #european #flourish #grave

It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#cross #jesus #jews #killed #political

Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies. ↗

— Milton Berle

#bread #dies #goes #into #jew

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#any #believe #communal #democratic #firmly

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. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#claim #culture #cultures #i #jewish

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#country #disgrace #fame #fearing #general

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#being #betray #dead #go #here

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#air #always #angels #breaks #burden