Mike Wallace Quotes

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.

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.

Well, I try to not view things through a prism of anti-Semitism, because often, people will use that as a sort of knee-jerk reaction to any criticism of Jews.

The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.

My feeling is that the English are naturally anti-Semitic.

The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.

There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear.

No one said anything to my face, but I constantly heard comments denigrating Jews.

Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.

My tenure at 'The Daily Show' started during the decade after September 11, and fear of Muslims was at an all-time high. Politicians and the media seemed to dial the fright, mistrust, and animosity up to a fever pitch to gain votes and ratings.

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.

As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior.

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.

When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.

I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good scared white people and racists?

You see, that's the problem I have with 'you people.'

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.

Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may as well amuse yourself by attacking the Jews.

Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.

Non-Muslims with some justice now regard the Muslims as little better than animals.

If you stay here much longer, you'll all get slitty-eyed

Muslims are like wild dogs. You can't deal with them, you can only kill them.