Louis D. Brandeis Quotes

My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.

I realized that we have to do everything we can to preserve the Jewish race. I'm very proud of it, and I think it's wonderful.

I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

I was honoured recently to accept the position of president of Mizrachi U.K. I did so because I believe our eternal challenge as Jews is both straightforward and also awash with complexity: How to sanctify the innovations of the modern world in accordance with our eternal Jewish values?

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

I've liked being Jewish in America - there's a secular version of Jewishness there that's more about bagels and jokes than going to synagogues.

Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common.

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.

One generation after another is drifting away from anything Jewish.

My Judaism has always been a great pride with me.

I am very proud of being Jewish.

'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.

I am a Jew. Those are four words of pride. My Jewishness is as deep as my genes.

To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.

The mantle of the pioneers has fallen on our shoulders.

The real threat to Zionism is the dilution of quality, Jews know that they can land on their feet in any country of the world. The real test for us is to make Israel such an attractive place—such a cutting-edge place in human society, education, culture, science, quality of life that even Americans Jewish young people will want to come here.

What matters is not what the goyim say, but what the Jews do

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 always find that the more Jewish you are, the more people respect you.

The whole point of Israel was to create a place where Jews could live the best life - and liveliest - in accordance with their values.

I'm Jewish, and so religion, to me, is a kind of moral code and a kind of history.

There's something innately funny and warm about being Jewish. I think it's something to be embraced and respected.

Whatever I'm going to be doing, a lot of it will be furthering this heritage, this legacy.