Ephraim Mirvis Quotes

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

I'm not a racist, and I'm not a murderer.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

Hate them and strike them.

This is a hard job to do …. We represent the underdog, and that makes the top dogs angry.

… musty deposits of 2000 years of inhumanity, intolerance and foulness.

It is a sin peculiar to man to hate his victim.

Greed, Militarism, War - this is fascism! Unite to destroy it!

Fight these hateful enemies.

Evil or atrocity often explodes from a furnace built from the steady accretion of small, unchallenged wrong.

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who've died fighting for our country.

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.

We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.