#jews

‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others. ↗

— David Benioff

#history #inspirational #jewish #jews #pessimism

I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#acceptance #also #avoidance #child #family

The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again. ↗

— Alois Brunner

#chance #deserved #die #had #i

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims. ↗

— Judith Butler

#cannot #historically #jews #legitimately #now

Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

#camps #deportation #extermination #internal #jews

It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest state. ↗

— Bronislaw Geremek

#country #jews #often #pathology #poland

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews. ↗

— Ira Glass

#break #distinct #down #family #into

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#built #come #country #everywhere #faith

There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#eleven #expect #here #i #i can

The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#basis #been #built #business #entrepreneurs