Peter Eisenman Quotes

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

People who are pierced should not be snickered at, should not become the object of ridicule, should not be singled out for special and uneven and unequal treatment. They should be respected just like everybody else.

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

To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

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

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.

I was too Jewish for 'Flashdance.'

When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews.

The old Jew, he is the man.

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

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.

The presence of a Jew in any movement no more guarantees it to be innocent of antisemitism than guilty. And that applies to anti-Zionism, too. Anti-Zionist Jews exist, but that tells one nothing about anti-Zionism.

To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

The kids didn't call me Amy Schumer; they called me Amy Jewmer. One summer, I'll never forget this, all the kids took turns throwing handfuls of pennies at me. I know, I was like, 'Excuse me - this is awesome!

I don't believe in typecasting. Just because all my characters may come from the other side of the tracks doesn't mean they are all the same. You don't stereotype people and generalize people, everyone's different.

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Labels are for cans, not for people.

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

The Sneetches got really quite smart on that day. The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches. And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches. That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars and whether they had one, or not, upon thars.

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

It's interesting, gender versus race. I think people say that to women more: 'Oh, you're my favorite female.' They wouldn't say 'favorite black comic.'

Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.