Mary McCarthy Quotes

Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly expressed in it is man's traditional mistrust of the man who is not part of his tribe, that 'other' who speaks a different language, whose skin is a different color, and who participates in mysterious rites and rituals.

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.

Anti-Semitism has been a fact of European life for more than 2,000 years.

Today a racist is synonymous with race hatred. Hating someone is a pretty unpleasant thing and few people are capable of hating others. Long-term hatred is a pathological disorder.

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.

Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.

And I certainly don’t like the white supremacists and those whose religion is hating the Jews, period.

There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.

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

Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world.

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

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

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

We've never been anti-Semitic.

If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive.

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.

I was taught to be anti-Jewish.

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

Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.

David Duke is not a Republican. He is a pretender, a charlatan and a political opportunist who is looking for any organization he can find to try to legitimize his views of racial and religious bigotry and intolerance.

Of all the bigotries that ravage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic. It has no basis in reason, it is not rooted in faith, it aspires to no ideal.

Whoever kindles the flame of intolerance in America is lighting a fire underneath his own home.

Muslims are backward and evil and if it is racist to say so... then racist I must be.

The singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply.