Howard Jacobson Quotes

Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people.

We have Donald Trump standing up as one of the greatest fear-mongers in this nation's history. He's trying to make us afraid of each other.

Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.

You know, just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic - you name it.

Everyone that we disagree with is a racist and a homophobe and Islamophobe and a bigot. It's just silly. It's lazy thinking, and I think it gets us nowhere.

Trump bumper sticker is the new Confederate flag. Absolutely. All Donald Trump is doing is making America hate again.

Faced with intolerance and hatred, no debate is possible.

I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.

You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Each side had its uninformed fanatics. And each side had political leaders who fanned the flames with their rhetoric.

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts. Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. We are filled with disgust.

Demonizing the other does not help our cause and does bad things to us.

There is again a rising fever and anger towards those seen as different.

Dislike of another’s opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

I’m trying to make myself more capable of violence. I’m here to spread my ideas, talk, in the hopes that somebody more capable will come along and do that, somebody like Donald Trump who does not give his daughter to a Jew. I don’t think that you could feel about race the way I do and watch that Kushner bastard walk around with that beautiful girl.

Trump enabled, allowed, peddled to, and promoted the worst in America - racism, division, discrimination, misogyny - during his campaign. I will never forget or forgive him for that.

Yes, there is racism. There is discrimination. Mr. Trump may have the most powerful job in the world, but that does not make him a respectful person.

Nobody wants to be seen with a bigot.

Hatred, anger, and violence can destroy us: the politics of polarization is dangerous.

Most racist people are like sheep. They are people without backbones.

Donald Trump is a bigot.

If you're taught to hate and fear a people or a country, and it works, it's because of your ignorance of that country. You have no contact with it, nor do you know what you're hating and fearing.

Bigotry and demonisation of difference are usually the hallmark of immature and childish minds.