Steven Pinker Quotes

I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.

I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.

I come from generations of progressive, atheist Jews.

I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.

If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity. You really weaken that sense of identity if you celebrate two religions.

I feel very Jewish, and I feel very grateful to be Jewish. But I don't believe in God or anything to do with the Jewish religion.

I was brought up a Jew but, you know, that way of being Jewish - the New York way. We were stomach Jews; we were Jewish-joke Jews. We were bagel Jews. We didn't go to synagogue. I'm frightened of synagogue to this day.

There's no such thing as being a cultural Jew. You're religious or you're not.

I was born Jewish, but I am an atheist. I dont believe in God.

When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.

No one in my family is Jewish; no one was raised as a Jew, me included.

My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.

I was the kind of Jew who'd be in a bar, somebody would say it's Yom Kippur, and I'd go, 'Really?'

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.

I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

My dad's Jewish and my mum is Christian, so I grew up with no religion. Just whatever religion I wanted.

No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.

Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.

I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.

I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.

While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person.

My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.

I grew up pretty secular. I went to public school, and all the Jews that I knew, none of them were religious. While probably half of my friends were Jewish, they were all secular Jews. We went to Hebrew school, we knew we were Jewish, but it wasn't a major part of our existence.

My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.