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Israel Zangwill Quotes

Israel Zangwill Quotes.

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
Israel Zangwill
Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan – spoiled.
Israel Zangwill
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
Israel Zangwill
Everything changes but change.
Israel Zangwill
No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you – he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.
Israel Zangwill
The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.
Israel Zangwill
The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.
Israel Zangwill
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
Israel Zangwill
Until mankind heeds the message on the Hebrew trumpet blown, and the faith of the whole world’s people is the faith that is our own.
Israel Zangwill
The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail. And whereas the unlike is normally situated at a safe distance, the Jews bring the unlike into the heart of every milieu, and must there defend a frontier line as large as the world.
Israel Zangwill
You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.
Israel Zangwill
Everything changes but change
Israel Zangwill
There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.
Israel Zangwill
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.
Israel Zangwill
Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.
Israel Zangwill
Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.
Israel Zangwill
In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.
Israel Zangwill