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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“We Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement… We will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home”. –King Faisal I

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