Albert J. Nock Quotes
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.
Nock, Albert J. Journal of Forgotten Days: May 1934 - October 1935. Henry Regnery Company, 1948, p. 104.
Patton was an anti-Semite which was then not uncommon for Southerners of his socio economic class. However, for those Jews fighting in his Army his attitude was usually very positive.
The irony was that Breen was in charge of the Motion Picture censorship at a time when he personally could block any motion picture from being exhibited by withholding the Hollywood Production Seal of Approval. He was not only a virulent anti-Semitic but prohibited things like scenes with a double bed rather than twin beds for married couples.
This quotation was uncovered in 2010 when more of the Nixon White House tapes were relaeased. Nixon tended to have the worst stereotyped view of all minority groups.
Constantine the Great. Roman Emperors saw Christians as their most dangerous foes. However, Constantine converted to Christianity and ceased the vicious persecution of the Christians. As politicians in many societies need scapegoats to blame for various problems, and the Christians were no longer available, the Jews then became the targeted scapegoats.
Albert Jay Nock was an American libertarian author, editor first of The Freeman and then The Nation, educational theorist, Georgist, and social critic of the early and middle 20th century. He was an outspoken opponent of the New Deal, and served as a fundamental inspiration for the modern libertarian and conservative movements, cited as an influence by William F. Buckley Jr. He was one of the first Americans to self-identify as "libertarian". His best-known books are Memoirs of a Superfluous Man and Our Enemy, the State.
