1.
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?
Hillel the Elder
2.
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
Golda Meir
3.
It's not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you are with what you have.
Samson Raphael Hirsch
5.
If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming
Ahad Ha'am
7.
Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice NEVER attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and sets Judaism on its head.
Roseanne Barr
8.
Judaism is a conspiracy against all races.
Tom Metzger
9.
It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism.
Ernest Renan
10.
In Judaism social action is religiousness, and religiousness implies social action.
Leo Baeck
11.
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.
Karl Marx
13.
I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.
Fred Melamed
15.
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.
Moses Mendelssohn
16.
Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.
Sigmund Freud
17.
My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
Anita Diament
18.
Judaism is not a religion. At best, it is a racial credo, designed to maintain racial cohesion, in this case the Khazar bloodlines.
Henry Makow
19.
I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one.
Michael Bloomberg
20.
In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.
Chaim Potok
22.
I'm proud to be a member of a society that is based, whose values are based on Christiany, Judaism and humanism.
Geert Wilders
23.
Do you know what Christianity is? We believe your religion [Judaism], but you [Jews] have to obey.
Ann Coulter
24.
I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.
Lionel Blue
26.
Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.
Vidal Sassoon
29.
The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.
Arthur Miller
31.
I realized that Judaism required me to give up something that meant too much to me...Bacon cheeseburgers.
Shawnee Smith
32.
A good journalistic organisation upholds four values: inform, reflect, crusade, connect.
Jane Eisner
33.
Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.
Benjamin Disraeli
34.
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.
Albert Einstein
35.
Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.
Karl Marx
36.
We are not an isolated insulated community anymore
Jane Eisner
37.
I'd say, probably, intellectually I've drawn as much from Judaism as any other faith.
Barack Obama
38.
Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there's a shallowness there. That's not a bad thing, really.
Jonathan Safran Foer
39.
Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.
Sigmund Freud
40.
Having people be afraid of you comes with responsibility.
Daniel Gordis
41.
I love religions and find them fascinating, and I find Judaism very beautiful. It's enriched my life enormously.
Isla Fisher
42.
Israel must be able to defend itself - by itself - against any threat.
Barack Obama
43.
As I'm getting to know Judaism, my view of the whole world is changing.
Csanad Szegedi
44.
Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.
Solomon Schechter
45.
[My mother] wanted to go as deep as possible into the world of religion. And that took her into Judaism.
Trevor Noah
48.
Judaism teaches everyone tolerance towards everyone.
Csanad Szegedi
49.
Can it be I am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentuchy, looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P?
Maxine Kumin
50.
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.
Ben Marcus