Louis Nizer

“I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds”. –Louis Nizer

Léon Blum

“The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought”. –Léon Blum

Ferdinand Lassalle

“The constitutional questions, are in the first instance, not questions of right, but questions of might”. –Ferdinand Lassalle

Philo

“A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial”. –Philo

Meir Kahane

“One of the great problems with Americans is that – being a decent people – they assume that everyone else is equally decent”. –Meir Kahane

Stefan Zweig

“The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them”. –Stefan Zweig

Samuel Untermyer

“The Jews are the aristocrats of the world”. –Samuel Untermyer

Harold Pinter

“US foreign policy could be defined as follows: kiss my ass or I’ll kick your head in”. –Harold Pinter

Sholem Aleichem

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor”. –Sholem Aleichem

Jonas Salk

“Neither wisdom nor good will is now dominant. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality”. –Jonas Salk

Paul Erdős

“Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education”. –Paul Erdős

Israel Zangwill

“Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan — spoiled”. –Israel Zangwill

Jesus Christ

“You shall know truth, and the truth shall set you free”. –Jesus Christ

Theodor Adorno

“The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit”. –Theodor Adorno

Yehuda Ashlag

“The duration of every political phase is just as long as it takes to unveil its shortcomings and evil. While discovering its defects, it makes way for a new phase, liberated from these failings. Thus, these impairments that appear in a situation and destroy it are the very forces of human evolution, as they raise humanity to a more corrected state”. –Yehuda Ashlag

Anne Frank

“There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again”. –Anne Frank

Ludwig von Mises

“Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man”. –Ludwig von Mises

Samuel Gompers

“The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit”. –Samuel Gompers

Simon Wiesenthal

“There is no freedom without justice”. –Simon Wiesenthal

Albert Einstein

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world”. –Albert Einstein

Bruno Walter

“Napoleon is dead — but Beethoven lives”. –Bruno Walter

Moshe Dayan

“Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice”. –Moshe Dayan

Nathalie Sarraute

“It’s the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles”. –Nathalie Sarraute

Irving Berlin

“The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success”. –Irving Berlin

Walter Kaufmann

“The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains”. –Walter Kaufmann

Bernard Malamud

“If you ever forget you’re a Jew, a Gentile will remind you”. –Bernard Malamud

Yitzhak Rabin

“You don’t make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies”. –Yitzhak Rabin

Golda Meir

“Peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us”. –Golda Meir

Oscar Levant

“I envy people who drink; at least they know what to blame everything on”. –Oscar Levant

David Ben-Gurion

“The test of democracy is freedom of criticism”. –David Ben-Gurion