Bret Stephens Quotes

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people.

You will see how little time we shall need in order to upset the ideas and the criteria of the whole world, simply and purely by attacking Judaism.... Anti-Semitism is a useful revolutionary expedient.

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

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.

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.

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.

Yes the Jews do many foul things and they distort our foreign policy but not everything that goes bad can be blamed on the Jews.

And 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.

Any country that steps into the same trench as the Jews has only itself to blame.

Anti-Semitism is the Socialism of fools.

Nor do I believe that we should be impartial about certain things like racialism, or extreme forms of political belief.

Religious clerics have a big share in the rise on intolerance towards minorities. A country like Pakistan where literacy rate is low and people are naïve when it comes on opinion making, it becomes easy to be successful in manipulating people’s minds. The manipulation of their opinions by those who are extremists in their views and beliefs always meet disaster. These clerics have played an ugly role most of the times and their preaching of hate speech always led to more sufferings and disaster for minorities

When Jews are sacrificed, you have to ask yourself who will be next.

If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.

You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.

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.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

Well, he's not going to get any nicer. He's a genocidal racist maniac. He's one of these people who thinks the world was a great place when Voldemort ruled the world. He's particularly offended by mixed-blood Mudbloods, the product of wizards and humans. So I hope he goes into therapy.

Judaism is a conspiracy against all races.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.