Inspirational Hebrew Quotes & Sayings

The relatively new trouble with mass society is perhaps even more serious, but not because of the masses themselves, but because this society is essentially a consumers' society where leisure time is used no longer for self-perfection or acquisition of more social status, but for more and more consumption and more and more entertainment ... To believe that such a society will become more "cultured" as time goes on and education has done its work, is, I think, a fatal mistake. The point is that a consumers' society cannot possibly know how to take care of a world and the things which belong exclusively to the space of worldly appearances, because its central attitude toward all objects, the attitude of consumption, spells ruin to everything it touches. — Hannah Arendt

One day they'll let you out of that dry, empty cell. You'll return to the Separates, and you'll feel the rain once more. And you'll grow straight, this time, toward this sunlight. I know you will. — Lucy Christopher

I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take. — Charles Bukowski

The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle. — Barry Eisler

Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone. — Jens Jensen

I do not like the darkness, but please don't make the light too strong. — Raphael Ben Levi

God Child is a free and inspirational translation of Adam. Adam means 'human', not 'man'. The Hebrew for 'man' is 'aish'. In English man can mean both man and human, which may have caused the confusion in the first place. If Adam isn't the first male Homo sapiens, who or what is he? — Stefan Emunds

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience. — Winston Churchill