Steven Berkoff Quotes

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.

We've never been anti-Semitic.

Well, I try to not view things through a prism of anti-Semitism, because often, people will use that as a sort of knee-jerk reaction to any criticism of Jews.

These Jews seem to think of nothing but making money and sexual indulgence …. Ninety-Five percent of these folks are Jews of Eastern European lineage. They are probably the scum of the earth.

Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism is not just a problem for Jews; it is a problem for all of our society.

Anti-Semitism is the hatred that never dies. Violence that begins with the Jews never ends with them. All of this is true. What's also true is that anti-Semitism is the oldest hatred in the world because individual people have sustained it in every generation. It cannot be defeated until we look these people and their ideologies in the face.

I do not want to have anything to do with anybody who is racist or bigoted or anti-Semitic.

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

No one said anything to my face, but I constantly heard comments denigrating Jews.

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.

At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know better, as false accusers always do.

Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.

The world is still very bigoted.

I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks.

In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency.

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the mind, it is by no means confined to weak, feeble, or commonplace intellects; as history sadly records, its carriers have included men and women of otherwise powerful and subtle thoughts.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may as well amuse yourself by attacking the Jews.

I know I'm not an anti-Semitic person.