Theodore Bikel Quotes

Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

Some day we may be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our children, but we will never forgive them for making us kill some of theirs.

This is the Middle East. None of the people who were involved with this will be allowed to live.

This is the vow to those consumed by hatred. We have but one path—waging war on them to the death.

If Jews don't come to Nazareth, Arabs don't go to Afula. There is fear on both sides.

Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

I'm not a racist, and I'm not a murderer.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

Sectarianism, bigotry, and it's horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful Earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization, and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now.

Race is set against race, party against party, religion against religion, neighbor against neighbor, and child against parent

Hate them and strike them.

Pave the Arab roads with the skulls of the Jews.

We intend to remain alive. Our neighbors want to see us dead. This is not a question that leaves much room for compromise.

Our hatred shall be implacable and the war shall be to the death.

… without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.... Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that accompanies and consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit all around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.

We protest to our last breath against the purveyors of hatred, cruelty and violence.

To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred?