Anne Frank Quotes

What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.

Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is - One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.

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.

The old Jew, he is the man.

The Jews are not merely hook-nosed but understand money instinctively.

The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.

I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.

It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews. The Jews have never produced a true poet. Heinrich Heine reached the point where he duped himself into a poet, and was rewarded by his versified lies being set to music by our own composers. He was the conscience of Judaism, just as Judaism is the evil conscience of our modern civilization.

I believe I understand anti-Semitism which is a very complex movement. I see it as a Jew, but without hatred or fear. I recognize what is anti-Semitism is rude jesting, vulgar jealousy of métier, hereditary prejudice; but also what can be considered as in fact legitimate defence.

Was there any form of filth or crime without at least one Jew involved in it? If you cut into such a sore, you find, like a maggot in a rotting body, often dazzled by the sudden light, a Jew.

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic.

I think Jews are the smartest people in the world.

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.

In America, I've been told so many times that I look 'too Jewish' that I stopped counting.

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.

If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you.

I was too Jewish for 'Flashdance.'

Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.

There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely. That's what I don't like.

When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews.

The dominant reasons for the opposition to the confirmation of Mr. Brandeis are that he is considered a radical and is a Jew.

The anti-Semite, not the Jew, is the real Christ-killer.

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

Nobody likes Jews. You can't say people like Jews. We're not popular. We're too smart to be liked. But it has been unacceptable to express anti-Semitism since the Holocaust.

Our leaders must hold themselves to a higher standard and ensure their words and actions do not promote hate or hurtful anti-Semitic stereotypes.