Hillel the Elder
Religious Leader, Scholar
"If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am "I"? And if not now, when?"
Judaism quotes
Judaism
58 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Golda Meir
Politician
"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."
Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again."
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life."
Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
"Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing."
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"Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view."
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"Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?"
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"The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal."
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"I realized that Judaism required me to give up something that meant too much to me...Bacon cheeseburgers."
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"Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist."
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"I'd say, probably, intellectually I've drawn as much from Judaism as any other faith."
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"Israel must be able to defend itself - by itself - against any threat."
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"Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion."
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"Judaism had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike [Todd] or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of whom were Jewish. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time."
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"Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability."
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"If I am right the Germans will say I was a German, and the French will say I was a Jew; If I am wrong the Germans will say I was a Jew and the French will say I was a German."
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"I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew."
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"Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity."
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"Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time."
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