John Calvin Quotes

My feeling is that the English are naturally anti-Semitic.

I thought Christians were walking idiots.

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.

There was no reason to label us as 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.

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.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.

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.

Democracy has become the instrument of that race [the Jews] …. Only the Jew can praise as institution which is as dirty and untrue as himself.

The absolute basis of all prejudice is ignorance and generalization.

The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.

Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it's a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original DNA, is buried deep within our history. And even within some Jews as well.

Alone of prejudices, anti-Zionism is sacrosanct. How very dare we distinguish the motivation of one sort from another? Or question, in any instance, an anti-Zionist's good faith? In fact, what determines whether anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic is the nature of it.

There's no religion in this country that is more misunderstood, mis-categorized, and misidentified than Islam.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

We misjudge anybody who's different from us and the Jews diverge from our type, ethnically and religiously. That's their chief offense, but there are particular causes.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

I just don't accept midgets as human beings. There's only so much political correctness I can accept.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.